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...morning last winter, a first-grader named Elizabeth awoke with a nasty cough. While she took her prescribed asthma medication, her mother reviewed their options. Neither parent could stay home that day. Elizabeth's mother had to be in the lab, and her father was out of town on business. School was risky: although she didn't feel sick and wasn't contagious, Elizabeth sounded sick, and her mother knew from experience that the nurse would probably call for a pickup just before dismissal time...
...most poignant is his handwriting. Lawyers for Elian's Miami relatives--who refuse to send him back to his father in communist Cuba--had the boy himself sign court papers seeking U.S. asylum. Elian, they said, is capable of deciding where he wants to live. But the first-grader's crude letters betray his tender mind, like the Power Rangers in his toy box. Last week Miami Federal Judge K. Michael Moore dismissed the relatives' case and agreed with Attorney General Janet Reno that only the Cuban father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, can speak for a child that young. "Each passing...
These recent commitments come in the wake of a series of workplace shootings and last February's fatal shooting of a first-grader by a six-year-old classmate. Even though Smith & Wesson most likely made these commitments to avoid a drawn-out and expensive litigation process, we applaud the company's courage and leadership in raising the expectations for gun producer responsibility for their guns after production. We hope the other gun manufacturers implicated by the government's lawsuit will follow the lead of Smith & Wesson...
...difficult process of shedding his vice-presidential carapace and revealing himself to voters. He had a nice new riff about his Vietnam- and Watergate-era disillusionment with politics, but the New Gore wasn't always a pretty sight. He often seemed as hyper and needy as a ninth-grader on a first date. But at least voters realized that he was truly, madly, deeply committed to winning, and they liked that about him. Bradley's cool, take-it-or-leave-it approach to politicking began to pale by comparison...
Blood-soaked playgrounds conjure up images of the innocent victims of war-torn nations in far-flung places. We as a nation have been slow to awaken to the urgency of the blood being spilled in our own backyard. Last week, a Michigan first grader shot and killed six-year old classmate Kayla Rolland, and in so doing, reminded us of our delinquency in responding to schoolyard shootings with adequate measures...