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...that is rejected, Fox said, he will prepare a lengthy brief on the legal issues in the four-year-old case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lakian Asks High Court to Consider Case | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

...eight- month-old daughter Kendall peered at two red dots on a white flash card held by a teacher, who called out, "Two!" As new cards came up, the teacher chanted the numbers while Kendall acknowledged the exercise with an occasional gurgle. Down the hall, Kendall's four-year-old sister Katie chirped, "Un, deux, trois . . ." mimicking the accent of her Parisian instructor. Elsewhere around Creme de la Creme, 150 other tots and toddlers grappled with art, music, French, math, gym, reading, science and social studies until mothers and fathers in Volvos and BMWs came to pick them up. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trying to Jump-Start Toddlers | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...Morningside Montessori, for children 22 months and up, parents at an evening meeting reflected a measure of anxiety as they traded strategies for their offspring's imminent step into the best possible elementary schools. Some had applied to four or five. Gail Zimmerman, 41, who had visited twelve schools before deciding where to apply for her four-year-old daughter, advised, "Hang out at the school around dismissal time, so you can see who picks the kids up. Is it a chauffeur? A baby sitter? The child's mother?" And she suggested keeping a notebook in which to log such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trying to Jump-Start Toddlers | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...quality of the story may be judged from the paragraph: "When six soldiers raped the four-year-old daughter of a peasant family he had befriended in Cuba and then dismembered the entire family, Williams said he realized the Marxist cause was not genuinely reformist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Hoax | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...abound in Simon's books about England and, of all places, the Bronx. The northernmost borough of New York City was the setting for the author's childhood, recounted with striking imagery and emotional precision in Bronx Primitive (1982). It too is a sort of travel book. A four-year-old Kate and her rachitic younger brother are transported thousands of miles from Poland to the U.S. at the end of World War I. The girl discovers the American air to be full of strange odors and foreign languages, especially English. She is part of a typical "Jewish immigrant hegira...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Girl in the Gold Borsalino a Wider World: Portraits in an | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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