Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...little boy is caught up in a high-profile tug-of-war between two families and two cultures. A parent wants him back, but politically influential adults say they can offer him a better life. This might sound like Elian Gonzalez, but instead it's the case all of Chicago was talking about last week: Baby T, the toddler taken from a drug-abusing black mother and given to a powerful white Democratic politician and his wife, a state court judge...
...that the Burkes, who had baptized Baby T as a Roman Catholic, were not suitable parents for an African-American child. Olison accused the Department of Children and Family Services of discriminating against black families. A black South Side minister called on the Burkes to adopt a white child instead. The Olison camp's argument was much like Miami Cuban Americans' claim about Elian: a whole community should have a say in how a child is reared...
...highway and shook his head. There was a long way to go. "If we ever make Des Moines, the television would show him once, and they wouldn't let him off. They'd keep him on for 36 straight hours. The election would be over right there. Instead, look where we are. On foot. And we don't even have anything...
...about to get sick of game shows. So instead of waiting for the fad to run its course, the four major networks have decided to force feed you, figuring they'll suck all they can out of their oil well before it dries up. Television has become efficient at eating itself...
...send a look book. Just tell us what you want,'" says Swank, whose current taste for Valentino should avert barbs from E! channel fashionista Joan Rivers. And the agent who negotiated the deal for Boys Don't Cry is gone, along with her manager of nine years. Instead she's signed with Kevin Huvane, the powerful Creative Artists Agency executive whose other clients include Tom Cruise. "Every agent in town called me," she explains. "I met with everybody, but [CAA] seemed to have the best game plan." Pricewise, her stock has risen quicker than Qualcomm's. She jokes that...