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...young adult Cowan said he remembers wanting to get involved in civic life...
...Young Teens because adding people to the buddy list every time they got an e-mail address from a friend was a pain. A few months ago, the girls started clamoring for Instant Messaging privileges--all their friends had it! Instant Messaging was something that came only with unrestricted adult access, so I admonished the girls never to talk to strangers...and then I gave them the keys to the kingdom...
Hunched over a chessboard, a poker-faced 10-year-old mocks his adult challenger. "Bring your king," says Solomon Hayes, blowing a giant bubble with his gum. "Bring it on." One move later, the match is over. "Checkmate!" he says. His vanquished opponent, teacher Courtney Welsh, throws up her hands. "Well, at least I beat a six-year-old the other day," she sighs...
...after seven years of Bill Clinton (who is, to give him credit, a genius of personal survival even by Shackleton standards), the inchoate Grown-up Factor has taken shape in the electoral mind. There is a hunger - call it an unarticulated disgust - to see a mature adult in the White House next time around...
...make a damning case, it may not be able to touch Skakel. Since the alleged crime was committed when he was a minor, the case resides in Connecticut juvenile court. Under today's state law, a capital case involving a 15- year-old would automatically be remanded to an adult court. But 1975 law required probable cause for that to happen. If the case stays in juvenile court, Skakel would probably draw no jail time even if convicted. (The model in 1975 was juvenile rehabilitation.) If the case is remanded, Sherman has the right to appeal, a process that could...