Word: boying
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...accounts, Ford was a devout Mormon and family man who sat down to dinner every night with his wife and his two sons and daughter, who are now in college at Brigham Young University. He taught Sunday school and gave free physicals to Boy Scouts. Hunter Hammill, a Baylor University professor who has known Ford since they were medical residents at UCLA, says Ford was a "boy genius" who not only won awards and patented treatments but also "knew everybody and everybody liked...
...about control. Pick the candidates, flood 'em with squashing amounts of money and send 'em forth. Round up the cadre to provide a flying wedge. Anyone not on board had better consider himself dead meat as far as the party is concerned. George W. Bush is merely the cover boy in this campaign; the Republican Party bosses are the real candidates. DAN THOMPSON Elgin...
...regulating ourselves this issue too. To calm our bad boy tendencies, we brought in the big guns of HUPD. Riding with them for a weekend as they deal with campus scum has to set us straight. Like the fine young people on whom we now model our lives, we have committed ourselves to learning the joys of racquet sports and wine and cheese fetes. With this therapy, we hope to return to the path of naive innocence. The lewd gestures and excessive cursing must be stopped before higher powers decide we are too crass for company and expel our naughty...
Fast-forward 10 years. Suppose the same boy, now 16, kills a member of a rival gang. On his way home, he picks up a pizza and rents a video--a comedy. He enjoys a few yuks and then turns in early. This segue from mayhem to amusement would be taken as proof of his brutality. A jury would find it easier to give him a stiff sentence than if he had gone home and paced the floor, racked by remorse...
Many people dichotomize between the six-year-old and his father. The boy is a victim of a corrupting environment; the man is the culprit, the one who shaped the environment. But of course the man was himself shaped--perhaps corrupted--by an early environment. I don't know the details of his life, but I'll bet he didn't prep at Choate...