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Ladybird, Ladybird opens one naked wound of the welfare dilemma. Should a loving mother be allowed to raise her children? But of course. And what if she is unable to protect them from her crippling weaknesses? Motherhood is a craft as well as a passion; it requires competence, ingenuity, common sense. "Children need more than love," a welfare worker testifies at one of Maggie's humiliating hearings. "They need support, and they need stability." In other words, the parent can't also be a child...
...revelations about trouble in the Airborne reopened an earlier wound. In 1994 Canada was shocked by the courts martial of nine members of the unit for torturing and killing a 16-year-old Somali boy who had trespassed on their compound in Belet Huen while he was looking for food. One of the troopers was sentenced to five years in prison; the other eight were either acquitted or are appealing lesser charges. During the pretrial investigation, officials discovered that a handful of soldiers in the Airborne, calling themselves the Rebels, had adopted the Confederate flag as their banner and openly...
...semester wound down Monday afternoon, an interview found Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles in a reflective mood, musing on the future of Harvard College, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and his tenure as dean...
Madison would not have enjoyed watching how the "three strikes and you're out" provision wound up in last year's crime bill. The idea first took shape in California, where 18-year-old Kimber Reynolds had been murdered by a career felon. It was electronic from its very inception: the legislation was co- authored by talk-radio host Ray Appleton from Fresno who knew the victim's father and had fielded outraged calls after the killer's lengthy criminal record came to light. As the idea gained ground in California, it spread east. Its popularity was electronically catalyzed...
...believed: that Farrakhan, a high lieutenant in the group at the time, was directly responsible for her husband's assassination. (Farrakhan has denied this, but admitted that members of the Nation of Islam - who were convicted of the murder -- might have taken his inflammatory rhetoric against Malcolm literally.) "That wound is still very much open," Monroe says. "And it's not surprising that one of Malcolm's children would be involved...