Elian's Week

Trying to Be a Kid With Feds on Your Tail

The image might have come straight from suburbia: a wiry six-year-old boy hops on a two-wheeled bike for the very first time. He gets a little push, and then he's off--racing down a private drive, no training wheels, a born rider. The scene wouldn't be notable if the child weren't ELIAN GONZALEZ and the man chasing after him weren't a burly U.S. marshal.

With the furor over his custody at least temporarily subsided, Elian may actually be getting a chance to be a regular kid again. Holed up at the Aspen Institute's Wye River estate, a 1,100-acre retreat on Maryland's Eastern...

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