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...need families too and that this need does not evaporate at 18, when kids "age out" of the foster-care system. "It's pretty sad," says Jackson, "when I get a call from a 24-year-old guy who's got no one to ask for help or advice except his former social worker, or from a young woman who is having her first baby and there are no grandparents in the picture...
...Kabul, Karzai is hoping that the Taliban are now demoralized enough to consider an amnesty. Soon, Karzai is expected to announce a "reconciliation" with all Taliban except Omar and his top commanders. The president's envoys are sending out feelers to former fighters. Olson claims that more than 30 former Taliban officials have accepted the terms, but sources caution that these were bureaucrats, not true commanders. Karzai has been using money and tribal blood ties to split Taliban commanders away from Omar, insiders say, promising them a chance to run in this fall's parliamentary elections...
...would rather be at home, but few seem likely to make that journey anytime soon. On his return trips from Zimbabwe, minibus driver Maseko carries a different freight: Zimbabweans headed for Johannesburg and the possibility of jobs, money and something to eat. "There is nothing to bring from Zimbabwe except those who want to leave," he says. "My country exports only people now. It breaks my heart...
...just ended up there. His earlier years were spent in Minneapolis, about 250 miles to the south. His family moved often between the city's suburbs, and for a year they lived in a rented mobile home behind a pickle factory. "He seemed like a normal kid to me, except that he liked to be alone," says Patrick Tahahwah, a family member who lived two doors down from Weise when the boy was 7. In 1997, his father committed suicide. In 1999, his mother was in a car accident that led to major brain damage. Weise was then sent...
...City flouts. The film has no script credit, and Rodriguez resigned from the Directors Guild so Miller could co-direct. But the film follows one rule explicitly: it is the comic book. Same dialogue, points of view, settings, same black-and-white look dabbed with splashes of blood--except the movie moves and makes noise. Lots of noise; beautiful moves...