Word: boying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...long as cocaine trafficking is so profitable, someone is willing to kill, or die, for it. Says a U.S. narcotics expert: "Colombia is winning the war, but I wonder whether its economic and political structure can withstand the long-term commitment." The signs are discouraging. In Medellin a small boy kicking a ball around a field built by Escobar called him a hero: "To me he's more important than God." The crop of tomorrow's would-be drug lords is as abundant as the marketplace of users who make such profane comparisons possible...
...sometimes Israel gives off something of the Old South, of race hate and sheer meanness. The other evening on Salah el-Din Street in East Jerusalem, a middle-aged man in a business suit was stopped by a beefy policeman who addressed him in Arabic: "Ya, walid ((Hey, boy))!" The policeman took the Palestinian's left hand and twisted it back slowly, painfully, saying softly all the while in Arabic, "You do intifadeh, boy? I think you're intifadeh, boy...
...police detective with a seedy apartment, a 5 o'clock shadow and, against his better judgment, a yen for the blond. It's the old story: boy meets girl. Boy suspects girl. Boy borrows girl's car and is almost killed when the brakes mysteriously fail...
...savings and loan scandal did more than bring tears to the eyes of the President's third son last week. Suddenly, through the lens of one man's life, the larger saga of an industry gone corrupt snapped into sharp resolution. The grief that crossed the fresh, Boy Scout face of Neil Bush struck a human chord of sympathy. But it also created a moment of clarity, defining the situation...
...conflict-of- interes t allegations, and reports that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) might file a $200 million civil suit against him and the other officers and directors of Denver's Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association, Neil Bush replaced Charles Keating as the S&L poster boy. His father interrupted his final press conference at the Houston economic summit to defend the besieged 35-year-old Denver businessman. "What father wouldn't express a certain confidence in the honor of his son?" asked the President as his voice cracked with emotion. "If the system finds he's done...