Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawyer who defended the six-year-old accused of kicking Ignacio Bermudez Jr. "The prosecution in this case took the position that he was going to make the six- year-old responsible," Burris says. "But while the prosecutor was ranting and raving, this kid was drawing, sitting on his mother's lap, sleeping. He referred to me as the 'tall man.' He didn't understand what...
...those contracts, so the bitter medicine of a closing would not be Japan's alone to swallow. Whatever Obuchi does, most economists predict that Japan's crisis will get worse after O-bon. The festival has its ancient roots in the story of a Buddhist disciple who frees his mother from hell by offering food and prayers at his ancestors' graves. With their economy at stake, the Japanese can only hope that their own prayers do not go unanswered...
Starr hasn't paid much attention to voluntary limits; he may be in that tiny minority of Americans who have no secrets, and so sees nothing wrong with pinching the zone of confidentiality to a tiny crease. There is nothing wrong with summoning Monica's mother to talk about her daughter's sex life, nothing wrong with going after bookstore receipts and hard drives and voice mail; these are all standard prosecutorial tactics. Yet earlier prosecutors like Lawrence Walsh and Robert Fiske elected not to use all the weapons in their arsenal. Even Nixon's adversaries never subpoenaed the President...
Rather, say behavioral geneticists, the "non-shared" environment is where the action is. Jimmy and Johnny find different peer groups at school, or different niches in a single peer group; Jimmy becomes valedictorian, Johnny becomes trouble. What's a mother to do? Non-shared environments outside the home, not parents, get the blame in Harris' theory...
...issue. Now we're coming into a new age. Billy's story is universal. Everyone has longed for someone else who may or may not have loved them back." Says Ray Price, head of the company's film division: "The movie is so wholesome that you could take your mother, your sister, your Ronald Reagan uncle...