Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...million Number of Boy Scouts enrolled nationwide since the group's founding in 1910; the 100-millionth scout--12-year-old Mario Castro--was initiated last week...
Sources: Wall Street Journal, AP, Boy Scouts of America, McDonald's, New York Times
...tried to kill her father, President Ronald Reagan, on that chilly day in 1981. She was especially shocked when she learned that Hinckley, found not guilty by reason of insanity, was recently granted leaves from a Washington hospital. "I find it really offensive when his attorney says, 'This poor boy,'" says Davis, currently working on a novel. "This poor boy shot other people out of the way to get to my father...
...father's rights." That's a legalism that assumes Juan Miguel Gonzalez to be as selfish, as narcissistic as most Americans have become in asserting their "rights." I am speaking of something deeper, more basic, more humanly essential--the father's love, his connection with his son. If the boy has a basic right, it is the right to his father...
...Elian Gonzalez case has been like that--two mutually contradictory games played simultaneously. The fly-fishing part involves the father, the son, the family, the boy's welfare. But the lions--Fidel Castro and the exiles in Miami--are up to another sport entirely: carnivorous politics. The problem is this: How to square a satisfying political solution (much better to keep the boy in the U.S., especially since his mother died trying to get him there) with the commonsense human (and legal) solution--that the boy belongs with his father...