Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life for selling crack. At the sentence hearing a distraught Smith told the judge, "I'm only 19. This is terrible." He then hurled himself out of a courtroom window and fell 16 stories to his death. "He didn't kill anyone; he didn't rob anyone," says his mother. "This happened because we are black and poor...
...computer, even if they feel like maybe the other kids are better." He talked about his two-year-old daughter who "gets a kick" out of the software she's using to learn the alphabet. And he was warmly supportive when Stewart confided that her 84-year-old mother is getting started on e-mail. "That's fantastic," Gates told Stewart, with genuine interest. "With a few hours you can get very comfortable...
...that they were identified as "legacies"--the offspring of alumni. In Ivy League colleges, alumni children are even now admitted at twice the rate of other applicants. For that reason, egg seekers may not actually need genuine smart-kid genes for their children: after all, an applicant whose mother and father and egg donor were all alumni could be considered a triple legacy...
...should try to make a virtue of necessity. We should bone up on (or remember) the knowledge we value and teach it to our children. Sometimes it will be academic subject matter, but just as often it will be a value or an attitude. Perhaps the greatest gift my mother gave me when I was young was her commitment to sit just behind me each day when I practiced the piano. She said little, though she would occasionally make a comment or suggest that we listen to a record or go to a concert. I learned to love music. Even...
...Rogers, Gene Autry and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Especially Roosevelt. "People generally thought this one man was the difference between winning and losing that war," the mayor says. It wasn't until later that they learned he couldn't walk. And yet, Davis says, "I remember him, because my mother cried when he died, and that's the only time I ever remember my mother crying." Brownback is of a different mind, a different generation. "I don't look to a President to be my hero," he says. "Kathy Currier is my hero...