Word: parente
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...laptops to schools at discount rates has grown from 52 public and private schools in 1996 to more than 170 this year. The private Cincinnati Country Day School requires all 500 of its students from grades 6 through 12 to carry laptops; the school pays half the cost, and parents chip in one-third. The public school district in Beaufort, S.C., leased laptops to 300 students last year, and after a swell of parent demands, expanded the program this fall to 1,000. In Texas, state-school-board president Jack Christie is pushing a proposal to junk textbooks and outfit...
Paxon is leaving politics to be with his wife, Susan Molinari, and their young daughter. Molinari left Congress last spring for CBS-TV. As a result, America is left with one fewer House power struggle to watch. And while the parents' desire to be with their child is noble, New York voters are left with a sense of abandonment that no parent would want their child to feel...
...Starr's defenders argue that he is only following standard procedure. But does anyone remember Ted Bundy's mother being called? Or John Gotti's? Surely the parent-child bond is equal to that between husband and wife. Children should be encouraged to confide in their parents, to tell us their secrets, to turn to us for help, in complete confidentiality. It's because we know so much that we shouldn't, by all we hold dear, be made to divulge it. The Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination ought to include the right not to incriminate a child...
...mother after she got her White House job. She sought her mother's help once she was called by Paula Jones' lawyers. She could help prosecutors more than even Linda Tripp with her surreptitious tapes. When Monica found herself detained by Starr's deputies, she did what every parent wants a child to do: she called home. Lewis could hardly have known that before she jumped on the train from New York she should have read her child her Miranda rights...
DIED. PATRICK CLARK, 42, pioneer of all sorts: first as a chef whose embrace of French cooking in the 1980s left patrons and rivals sighing, "Merveilleux!"; then as a parent of 1990s American nouvelle cuisine boom; and, as head chef at such to-die-for spots as Odeon and Cafe Luxembourg, one of the first blacks donning the top toque; of a heart attack; in Princeton...