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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gonzalez, 31, a tourism employee and Communist Party member, charged that Elizabet, whom he divorced in 1997, had "kidnapped" Elian--and he argued that the child must be returned to live with him. Relatives in Cuba, contacted by TIME, described Elian as a shy but affable and studious first-grader whose most recent childhood passion, besides baseball, is making and flying kites. Standing under a picture of revolutionary hero Che Guevara, and presumably coached by Cuban officials, Juan Miguel declared that he wants Elian to enjoy the free education and health care of his homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War over a Poster Boy | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...seven-year-old boy in Cahokia, Ill., is suspended for having a nail clipper at school. A 10th-grader at Surry County High School in Virginia is booted for having blue-dyed hair. A Minnesota high school nixes a yearbook photo of an Army enlistee in the senior class because it shows her sitting atop a cannon outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Effect | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...means a lot to me," said Annbela Dos Ramos, another Harrington School fourth grader...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First Lady Attends Book Signing, Avoids Talk of Senate Race | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

Most of the assembled crowd seemed to enjoy the First Lady's appearance, including Marcelo Santos, a fourth grader at the Harrington School in Cambridge, who called Clinton "very great...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First Lady Attends Book Signing, Avoids Talk of Senate Race | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...certainly not surprising that 40 percent of eighth graders failed the math test last year. Last year was a just a test of the test. There were no consequences if a student did poorly on the test. Individual scores weren't even reported. Aside from a warm fuzzy feeling of accomplishment, there is no incentive for any eighth grader to do well on this 12-hour practice test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

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