Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...gift for sly, sidelong comic glances. One appreciates the Coke machine that stands, uncommented upon, in the middle of the funeral parlor. One would not entirely mind seeing the dinner-theater production of Oh! Calcutta! they casually mention. But they need to be as smart as they can be instead of as dumb as the dominant (or Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me) comedy market will surely encourage them...
...grief. This is natural: we're only trying to fulfill the promises we whispered to them when they were born. But "protecting" a child from the death of a loved one doesn't work. Children who don't deal openly with grief can develop lasting emotional and developmental problems. Instead of trying to prevent sadness, we have to help our children experience...
...parents believe happens to loved ones after death. One of my friends reminded his sons of the shells they collected at the beach, left by animals that had died. Their granddad's body, he said, was like one of those shells: his spirit didn't live there anymore, but instead lived on in their hearts and memories and in heaven. Young children who lack the verbal skills to express their feelings about death should be encouraged to draw pictures, play and pretend. (My daughter's "burying" her doll after a death in the family showed me the value of such...
...trial in Albany never confronted the explosive question that lay at the heart of the case. If the unarmed Amadou Diallo had been a white youth instead of a dark-skinned immigrant from Africa, would he be alive today? "Race didn't become an issue during the trial," says attorney Johnnie Cochran, who got his start prosecuting cases of police misconduct in Los Angeles long before he ever heard of O.J. Simpson and who briefly served as a legal adviser to Diallo's family. "It was like there was a big pink elephant in the room and everyone acted like...
...police abounds. The true tragedy of the New York City and Los Angeles events is that as crime rates fell, confidence in the police in the minority community fell with them. The police had an unprecedented opportunity to be at the front lines of healing the racial divide. Instead the police remain the flash point for racial tension...