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...shouldn't impute opinions from the judges' questions, since justices often play devil's advocate when hearing an appeal. Still, there was little surprise that the Miami family appeared a little muted after the 90 minutes of oral argument. "I think they expected that their argument that a six-year-old can seek political asylum would have been more sympathetically received by the court," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett from Atlanta. "Instead, it encountered more scrutiny and skepticism than they were prepared for. At the same time, though, two of the judges rattled the federal government by expressing...
...immediately after Elian's removal from Miami, almost all the talking Thursday was done by lawyers. "The Miami family refrained entirely from talking to the media," says Padgett. "They appear to be very subdued." Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, stayed away from the proceedings entirely, and the six-year-old at the center of the whole affair spent the day with his Cuban playmates at a farm for exotic animals near the estate where they're sequestered. Although the justices vowed to quickly review the appeal, a ruling could still be weeks away. The losing side would then have...
Sophonie Telcy is a six-year-old girl, whose mother risked everything to remove her from the tiny island country of her birth, a country that is wracked by political turmoil and economic misery. After bringing Sophonie to the United States, her mother died, leaving Sophonie without care. Unlike a more well-known young motherless child, Sophonie has drawn no crowds. No marches or national work boycotts are being held in her honor. No one calls her survival a "miracle." The public is largely indifferent to Sophonie's plight because she comes from the island of Haiti rather than...
...Washington Post pushed the issue to the side to make space for a lead article on Ethiopia's striking famine. But these attempts to balance the news of children dying at a rate of a dozen a day in some Ethiopian towns with the fate of a cute six-year-old are too rare...
...advocate for the teachers and support staff at Buell Elementary School in Flint, Mich., I am compelled to set the record straight about the day that six-year-old Kayla Rolland was shot by her classmate. Contrary to the account of the student that TIME published [NATION, March 13], the little boy who shot Kayla did not have a knife taken away from him the morning of the shooting. Officials who interviewed the staff after the shooting concluded that no one knew anything about a knife (or a gun) before the attack. Michigan has a tough, zero-tolerance law regarding...