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...like the U.S., which can afford a web of social institutions such as the Child Welfare Administration, homeless shelters and the Legal Aid Society--even though they were unable to save Elisa's life--try to imagine what is taking place in countries like mine, where even a pale shadow of that support system is an unreachable dream. DOMINGOS FERNANDO REFINETTI Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...THERE IS BUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT that a child is being abused physically or mentally, no effort should be spared to ensure that child's safety. People must be exhorted by all means possible--legislation, ongoing public-awareness campaigns or whatever it takes--to denounce the mistreatment of children. As the mother of a six-year-old, I am numb with sadness thinking that other poor sweet children like helpless Elisa are still living in hell on earth. CATHERINE F. ST.-AMANT Montreal...
...resembles a large weather vane, and, in fact, it is mounted on hidden ball bearings, so that it can turn. The form of the blade is very pure and yet somehow indeterminate; it has no trace of fins, gills or other fishy attributes. It is more like the shadow of a fish in perfectly clear water, a gray flicker cast on the riverbed below, whose pebbles are suggested by the white streaks and mottling within the stone itself. Thus one has the strange impression of both looking at an opaque, polished stone form and gazing into transparency...
...straitlaced sister's fiance, a poor-born but quick-climbing lawyer. Though Linney has brightness and passion, Hepburn's telltale intonations--everything from her offhand pluckiness to her tremulous indignation--keep surfacing. As the fiance, Tony Goldwyn has better luck sliding out from under Grant's broad-shouldered shadow, although he escapes partly through lack of intensity; he doesn't fully engage us in his struggle between the two sisters, between prestige and fulfillment...
...kopfs (after the German word for "head"), Grotzinger's team has documented the existence of a flourishing biological community on the cusp of a startling transformation, a community in which small wormlike somethings, small shelly somethings - perhaps even large frondlike somethings - were in the process of crossing over a shadow line into uninhabited ecospace...