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...become a kind of indeterminate sentence. Only about half of all foster children return home; many of the rest are suspended in a legal limbo by parents who make little effort to regain their children but refuse to relinquish them fully. Although federal law mandates that a child whose mother shows no inclination to plan for his or her future within 18 months should be made available for adoption, an absentee parent can thwart such attempts by just minimal contact during those 18 months. Result: of the estimated 276,000 children in foster care in 1986, the last year...
...1950s and '60s, stands as a symbol of better times. But his erratic behavior in recent months has baffled Cambodians and international observers alike as he has bounced between conciliation with Hun Sen and collaboration with the Khmer Rouge. Son Sann maintains links with a second guerrilla force whose disciplined units are outnumbered by troops preoccupied with smuggling and black-market trading. And the Khmer Rouge continue to inspire revulsion among a populace that remains deeply scarred by Pol Pot's reign of terror between...
...those employees and millions more whose companies are vulnerable to takeover, the influx of bosses from abroad raises some unsettling questions. Will the new managers ask their employees to live by a foreign corporate culture? How successfully will they cope with the American marketplace? In the long run, will the new bosses bring growth and prosperity -- or losses and layoffs...
...library loophole was just one of an array of misdeeds reported to the Glenn committee by some of the Federal Government's 23 inspectors general, whose semi-independent offices were created in 1978 to ferret out abuse in the departments and agencies to which they are attached. Glenn has been calling them to testify, spurred by the scandal at the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...texture he cannot paint, from the massive chains of silver embroidery that anchor a Bourbon Queen's black dress to the bottom of the canvas, their slightly tarnished sparkle amazingly conveyed in opaque blobs of gray and white, to the hair of a hunting dog's leg whose living animal nature gets its due in three long and five short strokes of the brush. He does not truckle to King, Infanta or Pope; he does not satirize the dwarfs and idiots kept for the court's amusement. Nothing human is alien to him. Everything is worthy of respect -- a respect...