Word: watching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they can do something they know to be wrong, immediately try to cover it up, but then fairly quickly get back to the business of being children. Hence after they left Bulger on the tracks, Venables and Thompson went into a video store near Thompson's house and watched cartoons on the telly. As Carr's mother tried frantically and futilely to save her daughter, Kocher went back to playing Nintendo ("If you don't think about it, you won't be sad," he reportedly told other kids, who were crying). And in Chicago last week, the seven- and eight...
Similarly, no matter how many cop shows they watch, seven-year-olds can't understand Miranda rights. In an important case in 1986, the New York supreme court issued a ruling that made it more difficult, at least in that state, to question very young children suspected of crimes. Three years earlier, a seven-year-old Queens boy named Julian B. had allegedly pushed two-year-old Reggie Clegg from the roof of an apartment building. Under questioning, Julian admitted that he had shoved Reggie from the roof after an argument over a toy car. But the court found that...
There are many reasons, some of them fiercely personal, why people hate this story so much. It makes it hard to watch the news with our children. It leaves garbage in the living room. Every story gets viewed through a dirty prism: How much is our foreign policy shaped by domestic scandal? Did the tobacco bill fail because the President couldn't afford the fight? Cynicism is a political poison we've been absorbing into our bloodstream for a generation. But this time cynicism is just the beginning...
...heat of summer, amid the steady thump of rap music, the folks on South Parnell Avenue like to sit on their stoops nursing cans of Old Milwaukee and watching the cars go by. There's not a whole lot else to do on Parnell, a dead-end street tucked away in the blighted neighborhood of Englewood on Chicago's South Side--especially when you're out of work and out of patience trying to find it. So residents spend their time sitting outside and getting the lay of the land by scoping out passing cars. They see somebody...
...baseball? Schedule more day games! Time after time, I have to tear my kids away from televised baseball in the early innings because it's their bedtime. During the play-offs and World Series it gets even worse. Wake up and revise schedules so kids can go to games, watch them on TV and listen to them on the radio before they have to go to bed. NEIL TOLHURST Winsted, Conn...