Word: six-year-old
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...Year's Eve, six-year-old Christian put the lighted flashlights into the sleeves of his rust-red sweater and, a veritable 21st century automaton, ran down the hallways of TIME magazine to his mother, picture editor MaryAnne Golon. With not a small degree of pride, he loudly declared, "I'm Y2K compliant...
...community in Florida who are reaping the benefits of a family tragedy. That situation became even more apparent Monday as U.S. negotiators prepared to meet with their Cuban counterparts for biannual talks on immigration amid a frenzy of anti-American protests sparked off by the case of the six-year-old Gonzalez, who was found floating off Florida after his mother and stepfather drowned in an attempt to reach...
...delay his early return. In what may be a reflection of the ironic symbiosis across the Florida Straits, it's been a tremendous propaganda boost both to Castro and the right-wing exiles in Miami. While most experts agree that U.S. courts will ultimately rule that a six-year-old boy should go home to his daddy, that looks unlikely to happen before the Miami exiles have exhausted his value as a cause célèbre. And the delay simply accrues the political dividend reaped by Castro...
...civil rights leaders, including Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson (who was at the assassination), have been quiet on the ruling. Even conspiracy-lover Oliver Stone allowed his option on the film rights to the murder expire. Of course, a trial that was based on defendant Loyd Jowers' six-year-old claim to a TV reporter that he paid someone (not James Earl Ray) to kill King is a little suspect, especially since he didn't testify at his trial and may have simply been plugging a planned book on the assassination...
...found your article on the accelerated rate of teaching reading and math in kindergarten very interesting [EDUCATION, Nov. 8]. I am a parent of a six-year-old kindergartner who has been "redshirted," or held back from starting first grade. I did not make this decision based on theories like that of the early-education consultant who claims that kids need "more time in the classroom." Quite the contrary. I felt that what our young son needed most was more time to play. If what he has ahead of him in later grades is the kind of education tedium that...