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...Dawson (Penn) is an adult with the mental and emotional age of a seven-year-old. But he's "special" in the best sense--a generous, industrious soul, especially when he's with his daughter Lucy (total charmer Dakota Fanning). Lucy is a sweet, bright kid, devoted to her hampered dad, but now that she is 7, she has started to outstrip Sam in reading and social skills. When the state tries to take her from Sam, he hooks up with a frazzled lawyer (Pfeiffer, playing a more harried Ally McBeal) to win the child back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: O Come, All Ye Dysfunctional | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...which had gone undetected until it was so large as to be palpable from the outside. It just didn’t seem fair to Alyssa— “It’s not even something you would think to look for” in a seven-year-old. It was enough, “after I cried myself to sleep several nights in a row,” to convince her that she could not possibly do this as a career. “I guess I’d just never thought of these kids dying...

Author: By Brian P. Quinn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Eliot Tradition: The Jimmy Fund's Friends From Across the Charles | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

...less contentious route recommended by school officials or kept their daughters out of school entirely. But the number of children walking to school between rows of armor-clad police increased as the week went on. "They'll attack us whatever way we go," said the mother of a seven-year-old pupil. "If we don't go down this way, they'll get us the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suffer The Little Children | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Right now he is concerned with helping his seven-year-old daughter Arianna slide grape Popsicles out of a plastic mold. Arianna, Anthony's child from a previous relationship with a New York policewoman, spends every other weekend with Dad. She is lithe like her father, with brown hair hanging below her knees. Giving her father a purple-stained kiss on the cheek, she seems oblivious to the messy child-support dispute her parents have been having for more than a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marc Anthony: Best of Both Worlds | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

...particularly memorable woman, a 30-year-old mother of one, had yet to register her seven-year-old for school as of the day before classes. Both she and her son were very calm and loving, but the boy didn’t yet know his alphabet. In seven years of life, no one had ever sat down to read with him. This docile boy was quite possibly the most under-stimulated child in all of Boston. I wanted to say, “Hey, you need to read to your kid. He’s smart, but just because...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: The Problem With Parenting | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

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