Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just as the siege mentality that pervades U. Penn annoyed me, I can't deny that it is necessary. Within hours of our arrival in Philadelphia, one team member's car was stolen from a parking...
...mother's home. At last he was adopted by a Pennsylvania couple, but his behavior soon proved too much for them. While they made arrangements to terminate the adoption, he was stashed in a hospital for more than a year. That's where he was when Joe Mazzafro, a Philadelphia bachelor now 39, took...
Parents who adopt special-needs children speak of the rewards as often as the difficulties. Says Sam Borodin of Philadelphia, who with his wife has adopted three girls with Down syndrome: "They have given us joy and love back tenfold." But there are times when caring for a child with special needs can be too hard a test. In Texas a group of seven couples has brought a lawsuit against the state adoption agency, charging that they should have been told that their adopted children had been abused. As the children approached adolescence, they began to behave in a bizarre...
...dislocations -- wrenching, comic or both -- of being Jewish in America. Bellow's narrator, a man in his early 70s, never reveals his own name, but he engagingly -- and a bit smugly -- displays the trappings of his success: "I force myself to remember that I was not born in a Philadelphia house with 20- foot ceilings but began life as the child of Russian Jews from New Jersey." He had earned his mansion, plus his Wasp wife Deirdre and several million dollars, by founding the Mnemosyne Institute, an upscale think tank designed to help government and corporate bigwigs improve their powers...
...process of elimination is the way to do it. Obviously, the Dolphins are out. I'd look silly with a marine mammal on my head. And I'm too cool to jump on a winning bandwagon. Sorry, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. Appreciate the fans you've had from the beginning...