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...Brush your teeth at the same time to show how it's done...
...calculated show of political restraint, Castro didn't come to the airport to hail the pint-size icon. Instead, he broadcast a Cuban animated cartoon character to welcome Elian on national television--Elpidio Valdes, the patriotic, machete-swinging colonel who tells children to eat their vegetables, brush their teeth, and recently exhorted them to march against Elian's imperialist "Miami kidnappers." It was a cuddlier reminder of the dour communique Havana issued earlier in the week, promising that Elian would become a "model child...
...Child Center at the New York Psychoanalytic Society. "The child is in this in-between state," he says. "He wants to be young and taken care of, but he also wants to be independent." Parents often give too much freedom, in part because kids of these ages tend to brush their parents off. Notes Hoffman: "Kids talk like they want their parents out of their lives, yet they are begging for rules and limits and attention...
...official somberness. As he makes his way, greeting officials, bodyguards and Iranian journalists, he spots the two Americans on board. "Where are you from?" he asks, opening his arms. Could the President answer some questions? He laughs. "Inshallah [God willing]." The phrase could be construed as an Islamic brush-off: right now, at least, the President is talking to almost no one in the press. These days the President of Iran is moving very carefully...
...Although the third-place Ivy finish is nothing to brush under the rug, it was perhaps not the most rewarding achievement of the season. That moment came as the Crimson handily defeated its long time foes from Providence...