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...bespectacled acting editor in chief Jose Salgar. "We are dealing with a criminal wave that does not tolerate opposition. We are learning to live with terror." For top editors and a few prominent reporters and columnists, that can mean traveling with bodyguards or maintaining round- the-clock protection at home. Most, however, just try to sustain their courage and vary their routes home...
...Institute. Their goal was to remind the world that their nation is, as El Tiempo said, "not a cave of thieves but the major victim of the international drug trade." Potent as their words were, more potent still was the harrowing image of Pulido cut down on his way home from an honest day's work in a land ravaged by dishonor...
Back at the White House, Bush examined the pictures his photographers had made of Ortega. In shot after shot, Bush noted, was that same fixed stare beyond the people around him, a lonely man both at home and abroad. "Now, we keep pushing him," Bush said. "We don't let him off the hook of holding free elections. He is trapped as the current of democracy goes against...
Eric Dlugokinski, a University of Oklahoma psychologist, believes five-year- olds need to spend some time away from home, but, for late bloomers, an academically oriented kindergarten may not be the right environment. If a child does poorly in a first school experience, "that failure is very hard to eradicate. You want a child's first experience in learning to be satisfying." He thinks kindergartens should de-emphasize early exposure to the ABCs and concentrate on what he calls an "emotional competence curriculum," meaning one that teaches children such social skills as how to share and how to deal with...
...delaying kindergarten is right for their child? Psychologist Dlugokinski raises these questions: Is the child well-enough coordinated to hold pencils properly? Is he or she impulsive or shy about playing with others? Was he or she slow to walk or talk? Does the child seem fearful about leaving home? If any answer is yes, the youngster may be a potential redshirt...