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What exactly does a normal child look like? We've long since passed the time when childhood was an ungraded test--take your time, build your forts, play your games, the clock does not start until high school, maybe college. We give homework in first grade now. We're very busy people. And your parents will do anything, just anything, to help you get ahead...
...minute she got home she'd have this breakdown," Glassberg says. Glassberg has carefully built an after-school routine of household tasks and time-management techniques to help her daughter focus. "You'd be asking the impossible to have my child come home, have a snack and do her homework right away. So instead, she comes home, lays her books down, and we go for a walk around the block. It gives her time to vent and re-attune herself...
WASHINGTON: It's been more than two weeks since Bill Clinton got his homework assignment from Henry Hyde -- 81 questions on what exactly happened with his pals Vernon and Monica -- and the President is only now getting round to completing it. "We are close to the end of this process," said White House press spokesman Joe Lockhart, adding that Clinton would hand in the assignment either Thursday or Friday. Whether he would answer Hyde's questions in full, or merely refer him to answers previously given in the Paula Jones and grand jury depositions -- earning the President...
...Starr, of course, handed in his homework -- boxes and boxes of the stuff -- months ago. The independent counsel, who answered well in excess of 81 questions before the committee last Thursday, got a few more from ABC's Diane Sawyer in an interview to be screened Wednesday night. What does he really think of Clinton? "Extraordinarily talented," said Starr. "Wonderfully empathetic... he inspires just tremendous affection and loyalty." All of which earns the prosecutor top marks for magnanimity -- although it's probably a good thing that he wasn't under oath at the time...
...caption with your story "Why the Midterms Matter" [NATION, Oct. 19], you said of my ex-husband, Republican Congressman Rick White of Washington State's 1st District, that "he's had his own marital problems: his wife recently divorced him." You didn't do your homework. The statement should have read, "He recently divorced and left his wife and four young children." VIKKI KENNEDY WHITE Bainbridge Island, Wash...