Word: boying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...young boy in Atlanta, Chuck Fletcher used to spend Saturdays at work with his father. But Cliff Fletcher didn't work in an ordinary office building, he didn't run a bank or a store...
...quick to apologize for his school-boy achievements, which he sees as naive and very much removed from real-world conflicts of class and race. A scholar, student leader and athlete at Atlanta's Briarcliffe High, Romano was known among friends outside of school as "Rabbi" for his mastery of the Torah and "setting all kinds of records" at his temple...
When Romano talks about Jerry, one can see his eyes wander and his mind turn inward. Known as a trouble maker, Jerry was nearly a street tough at age nine. The child of a single, non-working mother, the boy's life introduced a different universe to Romano...
With his handsome face and suave demeanor, Wuer Kaixi was the obvious choice as poster boy of the overseas democracy movement after he escaped from the mainland nearly a year ago. Since then, however, the young dissident has lost some of his hero's aura, and his rumored peccadilloes -- spending dissident funds on a lavish lobster dinner, faking illness during press conferences to avoid tough questions, and hyperinflating the number of students killed last year -- have been well chronicled in the press. But he is the wiser for it. "It was hard, but that's what press freedom...
...courts. The notion of "wrongful adoption" -- which claims that agencies are liable for damages if they place children without fully disclosing their health backgrounds -- is gaining legal recognition. Frank and Jayne Gibbs of Philadelphia are suing two agencies for $6 million, following their adoption of a seven-year-old boy who turned out to be violently disturbed. After the adoption, say the couple, they discovered that he had been horribly abused, including an attempt by his natural mother to cut off his genitals...