Word: steals
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...remain in foster care no longer than a year, rather than the current 18 months, before a hearing is held on their status. The Administration hopes to move 54,000 children out of foster care and into permanent homes with adopted parents by 2002. A cheaper option, though, might steal the glory from the White House. Representatives Dave Camp and Barbara Kennelly are proposing a similar plan with the added bonus of a provision to locate fathers whose parental rights are being terminated. The advantage for a budget-minded Congress? Unlike Clinton's approach, it's completely free...
...crisis, the matriarch could have arranged to die unmolested and given Jon and Robin permission to jump ship. Such a blessing might have been welcome. "Jon told me numerous times that he was pretty fed up with the whole goddam thing," says Via. "If he had the opportunity to steal a million and a half dollars or 2 million and thought he could get by with it, I think he would have got out of the organization...
Harvard made a living off of strong forechecking in the neutral zone that in turn created opportunities for manadvantage rushes at the Yale defensemen. One of the Crimson's first quality scoring opportunities came on a Jamin Kerner steal at center ice, which he promptly dumped to Rob Millar, who let fly a shot from directly in front of Yale netminder Alex Westlund (19 saves...
...door is upstart Cornell, only a half game behind after slipping by Princeton 58-57 last Friday, then edging Pennsylvania, 69-66 on Saturday. Cornell (5-1, 10-7) was led by the clutch play of junior Kim Ruck, who sank two free throws with seven seconds left to steal the win from Princeton, then added a career-best 30 points against Pennsylvania. The Ivy League rewarded Ruck for her efforts with the Player of the Week award. The Big Red battles Brown and Yale this weekend in Ithaca...
Compared with the $10 to $30 per months fees levied by all the other Internet service providers (ISP's) in the market, the bigger.net plan seems like a steal. But there's no free lunch, even...