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Those riders are not children heading off to school. Nor am I. I am not a child between the ages of 8-12, nor am I the parent of such a child. I'm a woman in her late twenties...
Another reason: parents of children entering adolescence struggle to balance closeness and separation, says Dr. Leon Hoffman, co-director of the Parent Child Center at the New York Psychoanalytic Society. "The child is in this in-between state," he says. "He wants to be young and taken care of, but he also wants to be independent." Parents often give too much freedom, in part because kids of these ages tend to brush their parents off. Notes Hoffman: "Kids talk like they want their parents out of their lives, yet they are begging for rules and limits and attention...
...then the Tribune Company purchased Times Mirror, the parent...
...anti-Castro exile leadership had seized on the arrival of the shipwrecked boy last Thanksgiving as a godsend in their campaign to halt the slide in Washington toward relaxing the embargo. But campaigning to keep a child separated from his sole surviving parent may have been a fatal miscalculation for a political leadership whose power and relevance are derived less from its ability to mobilize its own base than from its ability to wield influence in Washington. While the ferocity of protest in Miami initially paralyzed the Clinton administration - and prompted Vice President Gore to break ranks over the government...
...deal Sunday that would make any street-corner sleight-of-hand practitioner proud. Philip Morris will supplement its already prodigious Kraft Foods properties by buying Nabisco Holdings, producer of national treasures like Oreos and Ritz crackers, for $14.9 billion. Once that transaction is completed, Nabisco Group Holdings (the parent company of Nabisco Holdings), will be acquired by the R. J. Reynolds tobacco company - the same company Nabisco Group divested itself of just one year ago - for $9.8 billion...