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...mayor said he advocates an approach to education that focuses on the needs of children in kindergarten through third grade because "at risk" children can be more easily spotted and helped at these ages...
...addition, Power said, she would like to send her son, who starts kindergarten next year, to a public school, but she finds Cambridge's schools unsatisfactory...
...self-proclaimed "policy wonk" like Clinton, a man who enjoys nothing better than noodling the ramifications of governmental remedies, so charmed by the kind of kindergarten criminology some of the current "three strikes" proposals represent? Part of the reason is that little serious thinking took place. "The President was moved by the Polly Klaas case," says White House domestic-policy assistant Bruce Reed. "He'd dealt with crime at the grass roots in Arkansas, but after meeting with the murdered girl's father in December he realized again that we have to do more to keep people like that...
Anderson himself seems to have inherited a remarkable collection of genes. "I was rather a weird little boy," he admits. A child prodigy in Tulsa, he could read, write, add and subtract before kindergarten, and was devouring college science books when he was eight -- skills, he says, that "did not endear me to the other schoolchildren of Oklahoma." He was also a stutterer, which made him a target of taunts. But that didn't bother him, he says, "because I considered everybody else in the world stupid...
...violence leaps to the West Bank, where Palestinian gunmen open fire on Israelis parked on a roadside near Ramallah, killing a 24-year-old kindergarten teacher and a 19-year-old yeshiva student. Protesting Israeli settlers, who oppose the peace settlement with the P.L.O., take their turn building barricades and setting tires aflame, snarling traffic throughout the West Bank. A day later in Hebron, armed settlers, clashing with stone-throwing Palestinians, kill one and wound nine of them...