Word: boying
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...fact that "family reunification is the cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy." His Miami relatives, backed by the local anti-Castro political machinery, are expected to seek a legal injunction against sending Elian home, but it's unlikely that any federal judge will overrule the INS given that the boy's natural father, backed by both sets of grandparents, have demanded his return. "Cuban-American organizations will exhaust every last resort they have, including street protests, because they want to keep the boy here as an anti-Castro symbol," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "Family concerns aren...
...decision to overrule them in an election year may pose a risk for Al Gore. "But the Democrats know they're unlikely to beat George Bush in Florida anyway," says Padgett, "and that may have allowed the administration to consider only what was in the best interests of the boy...
...only has medicine advanced; it has allowed people to act on their more selfless impulses. In September a middle-school teacher in Fayetteville, N.C., learned that one of her students suffered from kidney disease and needed a transplant. So the 42-year-old woman offered the 14-year-old boy one of her kidneys. Two miracles are at work in the story. The teacher wanted to sacrifice herself, and medicine would enable...
...young boy in Harlem was sitting at a computer in a library, clearly loving the experience. When asked why, he said of the computer, "It doesn't know I'm black." We are no closer to one another than we wish...
...before prosecutors said charges against her would not be pursued. Combs was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and possession of stolen property (police say the gun was stolen); he was released on $10,000 bail. Another rapper, Jamal Barrow (a.k.a. Shyne, a new artist on Combs' Bad Boy label), was charged with attempted murder for allegedly pulling out a gun and firing when someone in the club insulted Puffy...