Word: parented
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...Harvard College that I was virtually unaware of. I say "virtually unaware" and not "totally unaware" because this term I have tutorials with two students who fall into the biracial category, in addition to the fact that I (like several other African-American faculty members at Harvard) am the parent of biracial students. So I do have a little awareness situations relating to biracial and multiracial students. The two students I've tutored this past school year have been quite intellectually alive around multiracial issues, spending some facet of their academic concerns engaged with what it has meant historically...
...helped ignite "a seething backlash in the country," as the N.R.A. puts it. But as Randy Weaver looked out his window in a rural Iowa town last week, watching children play on the freshly mowed grass of a park across the street, he sounded more like a struggling single parent than an antigovernment desperado. The children on the lawn reminded him of Samuel, his 14-year-old son, who was shot and killed by federal agents. "He loved the outdoors," Weaver told a TIME reporter. "When we skinned deer, he would sharpen a knife as I cut into the hide...
...Guantanamo. Among the refugees were 321 unaccompanied Cuban children, all of whom have since have been paroled to the U.S. But of the 356 unaccompanied Haitian children who ended up at Gitmo, only 22 have been admitted to the U.S., because they needed medical attention or had a parent already in the States. Since the island has officially returned to democratic rule, immigration officials say, Haitians don't qualify for humanitarian parole. Some of these children were orphaned in Haiti, and set to sea alone or with friends; others saw their parents drown. Because of the violence and deprivation they...
...called his Secret Service detail chief for word from the disaster area. As it turned out, one victim had once been part of the Bush entourage: Al Whicher, a Secret Service man. Bush wrote in his letter, "He was no Nazi. He was a kind man, a loving parent, a man dedicated to serving his country -- and serve it well...
According to the National Center for HealthStatistics, the number of children born to oneBlack and one white parent has risen from just9,000 in 1968 to more than...