Word: sevens
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...bring this vacation, which began for Elian in the early-morning hours of Nov. 21, to an end? Isn't it time to help him understand the awful truth about what happened to his mother? The boy seems so completely a product of two loving parents--who suffered seven miscarriages before he was born and chose as his name an elision of theirs, Elizabet and Juan--that the thing we reflexively want to do is restore to him what is left of his family...
Hard Knocks is one of about a dozen U.S. schools that teach TV-style wrestling. Its enrollment, after seven years, has reached 75, as wrestling's popularity soars. Students pay $25 for each three-hour lesson in such moves as fake eye gouging and rubber banding a man's neck in the ropes...
GORE has Air Force Two, seven years of on-the-job training, faithful Democratic troops and a new set of boxing gloves...
...Every seven years since 1963, England has sat for its group portrait. A dozen seven-year-olds chosen then, and revisited in documentaries as they grew up, express the nation's cheerful willingness to settle for less than the big dream. (At least, that's what they say on camera. The Brits have such lovely manners, don't they?) A few have lived abroad, but all remain captives of a society still largely defined by class. Apted, whose films include Coal Miner's Daughter and The World Is Not Enough, has the storytelling skills to weave a powerful and poignant...
...characteristic: They will always be a mystery to the rest of us. This truth was never more evident than on Thursday, when 13-year-old Nathaniel Abraham, who was found guilty of fatally shooting 18-year-old Ronnie Green in 1997, was sentenced to spend the next seven years in Michigan's juvenile detention system, against the prosecution's pleas for a harsher sentence. Impassively observing the proceedings, Abraham stared balefully into the distance as his fate was decided; his lawyer reports the boy asked him "What happened?" after court was adjourned. For his part, Judge Eugene Moore made...