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Watching cartoons with his two children one Saturday morning last year, Thomas James Leyden Jr. was startled when his elder son, then 3, abruptly turned off the television. "Mom says we can't watch shows with niggers on them," the boy explained. The ugly word--and the sentiment behind it--did not exactly spring unsolicited from the preschooler's head; his dad sports enough neo-Nazi tattoos and credentials to explain the boy's action. But hearing his son talk that way, says Leyden, 30, "hit me like a ton of bricks. I knew I was taking him down...
...fragile Netanyahu coalition that relies on the support of both religious and secular parties. If that coalition fails, Netanyahu may be forced to turn to the Labor Party as a partner, and Peres could become an influential Foreign Minister. His party would be content to celebrate him as an elder statesman. "He's perceived to be a loser," says Beyer. "He's never won an election for the Labor Party in five tries." A challenge to Peres' leadership probably will not come before next year, so his Labor colleagues have to hope Peres can keep Netanyahu's feet...
...Manny & Lo," which tells the story of two orphaned sisters on the run, this fact becomes harder and harder to ignore, as the film is buffeted about by the tired-eyed wonder of the younger and the stilted bluster of the elder. Apart from a consistently hilarious deadpan performance by Mary Kay Place, the story remains dreamy and quirky, but, almost too faithful to its vagabond kiddie heroes, a little grating and puzzling...
...made you believe it); sportsmanship (in the tears of American Lindsay Davenport after she beat her "very best friend," Mary Joe Fernandez, in the women's tennis semifinals); and brotherhood (in the 82-kg wrestling bout in which Elmadi Jabrailov of Kazakhstan beat Lucman Jabrailov of Moldovia--his elder brother and coach--before the two went off to relax together...
Still, there are some things that Wills, as he grows older, can learn from his father's hard experience. One is that he cannot rely on others to be discreet. While Charles was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, the wife of R.A. Butler, a Tory elder statesman and Master of the College, introduced him to Lucia Santa Cruz, the daughter of the Chilean ambassador. When the young pair hit it off, the Butlers boasted that Charles had learned the fine points of physical love from Santa Cruz. Another lesson is that however irresponsible his parents became, they at least...