Word: joying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...With Juan Miguel's arrival having forced its hand, the Clinton administration finally moved decisively at Easter, risking a public backlash for the armed raid in which Elian was seized from his Miami relatives. But Elian's obvious joy at the reunion with his father neutralized any political flak, and the congressional hearings Republicans promised within hours of the raid appear to have vanished into the ether. By returning Elian to his father and then letting the courts decide the rest, the White House knocked the wind out of any further protests in Miami or on Capitol Hill...
...probably made your parents dance with joy when you decided to go to Harvard. But do you want to make your parents really happy? Tell them you're going to a college that's only 12 miles away. When my parents calculated the exact distance from our house to Harvard, the burden of an empty nest suddenly seemed a lot lighter...
...stop wanting fathers to be 'assistant mothers' and let them be fathers"--allowing them to plunge in and do things their way, making mistakes as they go, as mothers have done since the dawn of time. Involved fathers will not only share the chores but also the heart-bursting joy of parenting. Mothers and children--and especially the next generation of fathers--will all be better...
...graduate of TV spots, gives the dialogue scenes a kinetic pizazz. But they didn't make this movie for the characters; they did it for the cars--for a Knievel-like stunt that sends the Shelby over a dozen or so autos on a bridge, and for the joy of showing young people stealing cars, then driving them recklessly around a crowded city. Why don't these kids do something less dangerous, like heroin? At least then they'd kill only themselves...
...copy of The Joy of Sex on her coffee table. She thought it would be funny. If you went to visit somebody and they had that on their coffee table, you'd really wonder what was going...