Word: ways
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...way back to class, still vowing to get her dollar back, Serena runs into a classmate. "I hate to do this to you, but my kids have a poster of you in their room, and I was wondering if I could bring them in to meet you guys," the classmate says. "It would rock their world." Serena agrees to meet them the next week...
Serena, who has won close to $1 million this year, is certainly the only student at the school who can give an opinion about designers that includes the sentence "I really like Versace because of the way the clothes fit on me." For Friday's class, Venus, 6 ft. 1 1/2 in. tall, wore snakeskin pants, a faux-velvet, high-necked, sleeveless shirt and a tan leather half jacket. Serena, at 5 ft. 10 in., modeled a midriff-baring shirt under a denim jacket and low-riding jeans folded down over her stomach to reveal the brand-new belly-button...
Untimely death is often the only occasion for the public to catch a glimpse of the foster-care system. But there are living hells, and at times you can smell the brimstone a long way off. At others the evils come in disguise. In Gillette, Wyo., Homer and Beth Griswold were pillars of the community who were asked to be foster parents. She was a psychologist, a former member of the child-protection team. Her specialty was identifying sexual abuse. But while Beth baked Halloween cookies upstairs, Homer was downstairs molesting two of the girls in their care. Had anyone...
...carelessness, condemned to futures in which dreams cannot come true. President Clinton and Congress boast of new legislation and funding to move children more quickly from foster care to adoption. Indeed, there has been an increase in those numbers. Many foster parents too continue to act selflessly as important way stations for at-risk kids while their biological parents get their lives together. However, neglect and a quagmire of child-swallowing bureaucracies plague the system. And the incidence of neglect, physical and sexual abuse of children in the various foster-care systems is feared to be significantly higher than...
Terrell Peterson was young and black, like 50% of the foster-care population. He was a victim of the crack epidemic that spawned not only a generation of addicts but also a generation of lost children, most of whom have found their way into the foster-care system. His mother was addicted to crack. He had two siblings with different fathers. The state opened eight files on his family in five years, and 21 different caseworkers from five offices were involved in the cases. Social workers, faithful to a policy trend of placing kids with family members, sent Terrell...