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Although the scheme is officially titled the "Window of Opportunity," it has become known throughout the world simply as "The Harvard Plan...
...heralded show from NBC called The Torkelsons. The series revolves around a ragtag Oklahoma family of six: five kids and their poor but resourceful single mother (Connie Ray). In Wonder Years fashion, the central character is a sensitive teenager, 14-year- old Dorothy Jane, who monologizes from her bedroom window about how her crude family embarrasses...
Then Danny brings home Lucy Dean, whom he met at work when she arrived at his window to mail a bowling ball and other possessions to her former husband, now living in Wyoming. The prospect of a daughter-in-law who is both a divorcee and the mother of two small children, Agatha and Thomas, does not thrill the elder Bedloes, but a courtship of only a few weeks is followed by a wedding and then, seven months later, the birth of an obviously full-term baby girl. Ian does not believe the child is Danny's; roped into baby...
...moral defectives of the schoolyard jumping up and down on the social contract is evidence that America is not entirely a society of grownups. A drama in Encino, Calif.: a lawyer named Kenneth Shild built a basketball court in his yard, 60 feet from the bedroom window of a neighbor, Michael Rubin, also a lawyer. The bouncing of the basketball produced a "percussion noise that was highly annoying," according to Rubin, who asked Shild and his son to stop playing. Shild refused, and Rubin, knowing that his rights allowed him to take action to stop a nuisance, sprayed water from...
...more homey environment. Yet, for all the angry talk about a "five- star prison," Villa Escobar is no less a jail than the federal "country clubs" that hold America's most celebrated white-collar criminals. The walls are stone and concrete, and steel bars cover every door and window...