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...Christine Collins (Jolie) works as a supervisor at Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, where she patrols the operator bank on roller skates. She's a conscientious employee, but her life is devoted to her nine-year-old son Walter (Gattlin Griffith), whose father walked out when the child was born. One day Christine returns home to find Walter missing. As the days and months drag on, his disappearance becomes big news, and when word comes that the boy has been located, the press is there en masse at the train station. Instantly she sees that this "Walter" (Devon Conti...
...officer in charge, Capt. Jones (Jeffrey Donovan), dismisses Christine's evidence of differences between the two boys: this one is a few inches shorter, his dental records don't match Walter's, his teacher doesn't recognize him... and he's been circumcised! When Christine presses her objections, Jones has her confined to the psychopathic ward of the Los Angeles Hospital, in the company of other women with the potential to embarrass the cops. ("If we're insane," says Amy Ryan as a prostitute subjected to electroshock therapy for her outspokenness, "nobody has to listen to us.") Her only ally...
...chance to compete.Radcliffe placed 24th overall with a time of 18:25.525 after being shouldered with a one-minute penalty. Yale’s entry won the race easily in 16:47.894.—Staff writer Kate Leist can be reached at kleist@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...
...short time in the position taking on the state's two most prominent Catholic Democrats: Governor Mario Cuomo and Vice Presidential-nominee Geraldine Ferraro. By the time the dinner rolled along, tensions between the Catholic Church and the Democratic Party had become so strained that the Democratic nominee Walter Mondale simply skipped the event. Reagan attended alone and, on Election Day, captured 61% of Catholic voters, the largest share that any Republican presidential candidate had ever earned. No GOP candidate has matched it since...
...Lofgren said. “I’m happy to support them with any technical know-how, and I’m happy to bring all I can to this strong team that is already here.” —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Elizabeth A. Joyce can be reached at eajoyce@fas.harvard.edu...