Word: ageing
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...what the placement of Bulger's body on the tracks suggests; and the prosecutor of the six-year-old says three doctors concluded that the boy was able to discern right from wrong in the abstract. Similarly, in 1989, after nine-year-old Cameron Kocher shot Jessica Carr, age 7, with a rifle after an argument over Nintendo in their hometown in northeast Pennsylvania, the boy hid the spent cartridge. And after Robert ("Yummy") Sandifer, 11, killed a 14-year-old girl in Chicago in the late summer of 1994, he spent days eluding police before fellow gang members executed...
Kids know it's wrong to kill. They know it's right to put their toys away. Yes, they know even at seven, unless they have a disability. Seven has traditionally been considered the age of reason, a rough turning point in moral development. For more than a century, English common law has held that children under seven cannot commit crimes (but that those over seven can). "There used to be an old expression, 'Give me a child till he's seven, and I'll give you the adult,'" recalls Brian McSweeney, a vice chancellor of the Archdiocese...
...Kids throw rocks all the time. But the other issue is these kids could have been in a youthful predatory mode; kids who have been preyed upon before, victimized before, sometimes act that behavior out," he says. Of their apparent sexual assault on Harris, he says, "Kids at the age of seven and eight are forever doing little kinky, polymorphously perverse things--voyeurism, exhibitionism, cross dressing, anal and oral experimentation...
Saving Private Ryan should be mandatory viewing for everyone under age 40. The battle scenes magnify the bonding of people from different backgrounds in a unified sense of purpose and a belief in something. There is a message: the freedom we enjoy should be earned, not just taken for granted. DAVID MARRONE Urbana...
...adoption. True, my daughter Becky and I don't "look alike" (an issue on people's minds last week, as if physical resemblance somehow legitimizes or alters the parent-child bond). But I assure you, Becky's claim on me is exclusive and has been in evidence since the age of 14 months, when she raced across a room yelling, "My mommy!" then tried to shove a child off my lap. I've met hundreds of adopted children; not one has needed a court or a mirror to figure out who his or her parents...