Word: childe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gore. For months the press has been hammering him for taking the nomination for granted and not showing emotion. Now it's hammering him for trying too hard and showing too much. Of course he was sometimes overbearing at Dartmouth--asking faux-Clintonian personal questions ("How old is your child, Corey?") and then, after the event, sitting on the lip of the stage for 90 minutes to expound--impressively, by the way--on policy until everyone was exhausted, and Tipper said, "Al, I'm going to have to go." But the interesting question isn't whether Gore's exhibitionism...
...WHAT THEY GOT] --PAY UP, BUDDY House passed a bill with a means test that denies bankruptcy to anyone who can pay $6,000 over five years and makes it easier for creditors to attach alimony and child support. Senate is working on a slightly more debtor-friendly version...
...operate on a half-day schedule, the trend is toward a full day. Says James Squires, an early-education consultant for the Vermont department of education: "We need to give these kids more time in the classroom, but we should still try to preserve childhood for them as well." Child-development experts and educators say reading and math instruction can be fine for kindergartners, as long as they're also allowed to learn through play and creative activities. And like the rest of us, they also benefit from a snack and a nap now and then...
...ethnic intimidation. One was also charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder; another checked into a medical center for psychiatric evaluation. All told, 11 students were suspended. At a press conference on Friday, Cleveland Mayor Michael White said, "There is going to be a zero tolerance to any child bringing violence into a school." Parents and lawyers for the suspects contended that authorities were overreacting to teenage boasting and misunderstandings. Dan Shields, an attorney for two of the suspended students, told CNN that one of them had a map of South High only because he was a new student...
...tends to overstate his point. But Brodesser speaks with such conviction that Flora's penchant for repetition seems more like a necessary part of her personality than a flaw in the text. By the time she delivers her final monologue, in which she turns her handbag into a child just so she has something to love, it is very hard to listen without wanting to stand up and help...