Word: childness
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...Casement is dismayed, for example, that “there are no civilized authorities in that part of the country,” because it means that Arana’s agents are able to “conquer and subdue the Indian, who is a grown-up child...
Asked how his son came by his unusual name, Pa Ebele Jonathan once told a reporter that as soon as the boy was born, "I instinctively realized that this child has that element of fortune." Pa Jonathan, a canoe-maker from southern Nigeria, could not shake the thought. "I just said to myself, 'this boy is lucky,'" he said. "So I decided to call him Goodluck." The father's instinct proved true. But his son's good fortune would often come after the misfortune of others. In 1999, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was elected deputy governor of Bayelsa province...
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar—who teaches a course on childhood literature—traced the cultural history of the Little Red Riding Hood story while speaking about the malleability of child fairy tales...
...Jean, who lives on the cement driveway of the courthouse in hopes of getting some aid. She has observed the grandiose statements of lawyers and judges every day and says that, from what she can tell, the Americans should be freed based on good intentions. "When you take a child out of Haiti, they have more opportunities," says Jean. "It's not bad that they didn't have papers. It was a catastrophe, and we were dealing with difficult circumstances." (See a story about the re-emergence of corruption in postquake Haiti...
...remain in the country pending a final verdict. The 10 Baptist missionaries from Idaho were arrested on Jan. 29 after trying to take 33 Haitian children across the border to the Dominican Republic without legal documentation. The American women have denied that their actions had anything to do with child trafficking. (Read "Haiti's Children: Save Them, Don't Just Take Them...