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...copy of Colin Powell's book, which is testimony to how a man from a challenged background can reach the top. Powell's parents had pride in themselves, their children and their home, which is a lot more than Little Boy can say, as shown by the squalor he tolerates, a behavior his children will emulate. IRVIN S. NAYLOR York, Pennsylvania...
...hundreds of other reservations where Third World conditions prevail, there is only one real source of income, only one source of medical services and of food. There is only one real source of hope that someday Little Boy's family will be able to move out of squalor: the Federal Government. But the Federal Government is about to pull the plug...
...Services released a report condemning the repatriations. "The claim that what is being done is in the best interest of the children is a farce," said Niels Frenzen, a public-interest lawyer who helped track down some of the returnees and found that many were homeless or living in squalor with strangers. "There is only one humane solution to this problem. Close down the camp and accept the generosity of the families and agencies willing to care for these young people, just as we have done for Cuban children...
...message to all first-years who feel yougot screwed over yesterday; don't despair. You'llprobably grow to love your House. Or you'lltransfer, and love your new House. Or you'll moveoff-campus, and love your apartment, and feelreally grown up and romanticize the squalor inyour kitchen. It will work out-not in the end,really soon. What's important is to be with peopleyou love, doing things you love. The place whereyou're doing them, well, is secondary
...member (played, again deftly, by Becker). May places considerable demands on her actors. For one thing, she asks the drama to drag, literally: after swallowing handfuls of pills, Lavin crawls around her apartment, moaning wisecracks. For another, May has contrived a tale that, in a compressed space, moves from squalor to redemption. That the ending works as well as it does suggests that there's a better play here, potentially, than the one we have...