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...plenty to sort through. The night before, comedian Al Franken had acidly observed that the only voting bloc Dole was winning at the moment was agribusiness executives. Elizabeth Dole turned to her husband and said he needed to make some changes. It was time, she said, to put some "adult supervision" into place at a campaign peopled by aides in their middle 30s, many of whom have never run a general-election campaign. Dole grasped her point immediately, but his response was characteristically terse. We had better, he replied, "get some adults around there...
...ever come up against the intransigence, sneakiness or willfulness of a child--which is to say, just about every parent of an adolescent. In recent years, states have championed a variety of approaches to stemming the nation's soaring juvenile-crime rate, from boot camp to charging children with adult crimes. Among the most popular--and controversial--are laws that hold parents accountable for the sins of their children. In 1995 alone, 10 states and a number of communities enacted sanctions against parents, from counseling to jail time...
From a telephone poll of 1,011 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on May 8 and 9 by Yankelovich Partners, Inc. Sampling error is plus/minus 3.2%. *Asked of 826 registered voters. Sampling error is plus/minus...
...family to do this," said Coffey at a press conference at the federal courthouse. Coffey's resignation comes one day after the Miami Herald reported that the prosecutor was under investigation by the Justice Department. According to the Herald, a dancer at the Lipstik Adult Entertainment Club accused Coffey of struggling with her during a private session in February and breaking the skin of her arm with his teeth. Coffey went to the Lipstik with a bottle of champagne because he was depressed after a devastating defeat in a high-profile drug case, reports the paper, but he denies ever...
...National Adult Literacy Survey found that 21 percent of all American adults have limited reading and writing skills...