Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sandi Ann Woods' welcome to America was so ugly that eight years later it remains seared into her memory. In 1989 Sandi, only 9, immigrated with her mother to New York City from the British West Indies. At her new school, where she arrived dressed in shabby clothes, her hair braided unfashionably, another nine-year-old girl, without provocation, announced that she hated her--and punched her. "My esteem was so low," says Sandi, now a vivacious 17-year-old high school senior, "I used to cry every night...
...every day, tutors three students in math 3 to 6 hr. a week, plays sports, belongs to clubs and edits an award-winning high school newspaper. She does homework for 6 hr. till 1:30 a.m. "Sometimes I am about to break into tears," she says. "Just having my mother put her arm around me and say that it's O.K., that I am doing fine and should not give up is all I need to get back on track." Her fellow senior Megan Shutts, 17, gets hugs as well but also receives much needed guidance. "My mother helps...
...spending. Calling herself "a squirrel," Danni won't touch the $1,700 she has earned baby-sitting and pet-sitting until she's crazy about something...like the $140 Doc Martens she wanted last Christmas. They were cool, but Danni felt they cost too much. Lucky for her, her mother and grandmother split the cost...
...just turned 50, has yet to get a real job, is supported by his parents, has a failed marriage, and his mother apparently doesn't like his current girlfriend. If ever a man had cause for a mid-life crisis, it's PRINCE CHARLES. Even his birthday parties were fraught. On Friday, the Queen threw her boy a gala to which she invited 800 people, but not Camilla Parker Bowles. On Saturday, Parker Bowles had a party from which the Queen was conspicuously absent. Never mind. To prove, perhaps, he was a real nifty 50, Charles last week launched...
...Prove it!" Alone among the contestants, Cooper could do passably good imitations, including of Clinton and Gore as teenagers smoking pot. "C'mon," the easygoing Clinton says. "Let's get some pizza and listen to Eat a Peach." To which the uptight Gore responds, "I am freaking out! My mother's going to know...