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Some of the 1,400 parents expected for Freshman Parent's Weekend may be left out in the cold tomorrow, as most Boston and Cambridge hotels are booked solid...
...play attacks every current issue head on, but it deals with such issues as if they were quite naturally part of any family's history. Treatment of the aged, parent-child relationships, therapy, politics, senility, Blackness, gayness, economics, education, abuse, dreams, gender, humor, sex--the play is a veritable catalog of contemporary matters, a tapestry of American family life. Amidst all the tensions, the clearest one developed is that of mother-daughter relationships...
...Muppets. Then in 1982 Atari licensed E.T. for $23 million and proceeded to turn it into one of the worst video games ever made. The resulting disaster, known in the industry as "the crash of 1984," brought Atari into bankruptcy court and nearly dragged down its corporate parent, Warner Communications, as well. Some of those unsold E.T. cartridges can still be found on the dusty back shelves of retail stores...
...county circuit judge in Virginia ruled last week that a woman's lesbianism made her an unsuitable parent. Sharon Bottoms lost custody of her two-year-old son to her mother Kay Bottoms. Kay complained that the boy called Sharon's lover "Dada...
Require all employers to contribute to the cost of their workers' health care. Employers would pay 80% of whatever an average health-insurance plan costs. The White House estimates that in 1994 such policies would be $1,800 a year for an individual and $4,200 for a two-parent family. Workers who want this average plan would pay the remaining 20% of the premium. Those who want a more expensive plan would have the option of paying more out of their own pocket. And those willing to settle for a no-frills (HMO) could pay less...