Word: wanda
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...found a solution to Lucas' problem and that of millions of other women: hiring affordable domestic help. Surely the innumerable welfare recipients capable of working could provide the child care. That would give these women voters some much deserved free time and provide jobs for unemployed welfare recipients. WANDA ZAKRZEWSKI Chapala, Mexico...
...date for the trial to begin. Attorney General Janet Reno has not decided whether to seek the death penalty--something Kaczynski's family, which led investigators to his remote cabin, strongly opposes. In an interview two weeks ago on 60 Minutes, the defendant's mother Wanda Kaczynski argued for mercy: "There are people in this world that are mentally ill," she said, "and are we going to start killing them? What kind of a barbaric society are we heading for?" The California-based prosecution team is expected to file its own recommendations within a week...
...nothing perhaps compared with what lies ahead. All around Ted's cabin, FBI agents continue to dig for clues to connect him to the Unabomber. Late last week David and his mother Wanda visited the offices of the federal public defender in Washington. Is David now hoping to shield Ted from the law he gave him over to? A brother's obligations can be a complicated thing...
...fell into the fire and burned herself. Mather cried, "Alas, for my sins the just God throws my child into the fire!" The child was a moral adjunct mingling with the Puritan's internal devils. With equal unrealism, some American parents today envision their children as geniuses or angels. Wanda Kaczynski, of course, represented the style of an older generation of parents, but her child rearing bore traces of the obsessive. Later American parents sometimes have a tendency to practice a retro-projection that amounts to a search for their own lost, sweet, brilliant, childish selves. They indulge...
Born in Chicago in 1942, son of a Polish sausagemaker, Kaczynski was standout smart from childhood. His 89-year-old aunt told the Daily Southtown newspaper in Chicago that his parents were so intent on their son's academic success that they turned him into a "snob." Wanda would take her Theodore to Chicago art museums when he was a baby hoping to stimulate his intellect. "I used to tell her," the aunt said, "'Wanda, the boy is too young. He isn't learning anything.' Later she would tell me [when he was doing well in school...