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...York City, You Gotta Believe has developed a technique called mining the file. "The hard part is creating a connection to a teen, so we look for somebody who already has that connection," explains Jackson. Like sleuths on TV's Cold Case, adoption workers delve into each youth's history, trying to identify coaches, teachers or neighbors who have a relationship with the adolescent. Sometimes they discover a distant relative who wasn't regarded as a "fit parent" for a child in the past. Agencies invariably require adoption-training classes; Jackson's group holds them in the same tough communities...
...typical: "She may have said some things; she may have said too much. She was frightened. But I don't think she can be described as a secret agent." Others, quite clearly, could be. Leslaw Maleszka was a journalist and close friend of Wildstein's in the Solidarity youth movement in the 1970s in Krakow. The two men were called in separately to be interrogated. Unknown to Wildstein, Maleszka became an informer, suggesting that Wildstein could be compromised by planting drugs in his apartment. "He was very creative," Wildstein says. It was only by studying his own files, noting that...
...reconstruction may now have to be returned to donors or diverted to other causes. MEANWHILE IN JAPAN... Sumo Squabble Guardians of the ancient Japanese sport of sumo blocked moves to allow competitors to wear short-like "sumo pants" rather than the traditional loin-cloth. Amateurs had hoped to spur youth interest by allowing more modest gear, but the professional body insists it has "no intention of allowing children in pants into the ring...
...money in the fund will be distributed in the neighborhood for “youth, culture, and recreation,” but no definite plans have been determined yet. Representatives from the Agassiz Neighborhood Council say they intend to solicit ideas from the community...
...once waited tables in a hotel on the Adriatic coast, but today Giovanni Angelini, 60, has a different European adventure on his mind. As CEO of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, a group of 46 luxury properties in Asia, he is finally returning to the continent of his youth, with plans for a London hotel in 2009. Next stops: Paris, Frankfurt, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston. He aims to capitalize on the some 2.5 million Chinese tourists who travel abroad each year. Angelini spent a decade looking for the right London site, one that made financial...