Word: boying
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Only in America could a boy born in a modest farmhouse in central Illinois grow up to be a Senate candidate with no previous political experience. Well, make that only in America--by way of Wall Street and a $35 million fortune to spend...
...prison time was shortened for good behavior, and he would have been released last year. But Florida had changed the rules in 1998 with the Jimmy Ryce Act (named for a nine-year-old Miami boy kidnapped, raped and murdered by a sexual predator). The statute meant that Whitsett could be held and "treated" until he was no longer considered dangerous. That could mean forever. He was placed with 100 or so of Florida's worst convicted and "released" sexual predators in the Martin Treatment Center, a converted county jail, where he awaited a civil hearing...
Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives have - surprise, surprise - chosen the slow road for their appeal to keep the boy in the U.S., and that's just fine with Fidel Castro. Lawyers acting for great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez Wednesday asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to review their decision upholding the Immigration and Naturalization Service's ruling that the six-year-old couldn't apply for asylum in the U.S. against the wishes of his father. That request is likely to be a prelude to the eventual Supreme Court appeal that the Miami relatives have long vowed they...
...either a full panel of the 11th Circuit or by the high court. But while Elian's troubled sojourn in the U.S. grinds through its seventh month, Castro is making the most of the delay. Last week he got hundreds of thousands of Cuban women to march for the boy's return in the biggest demonstration seen in Havana for decades; this week tens of thousands of children got a day off school to file dutifully past the U.S. Interests Section in Havana denouncing the yanquis. The Elian case, after all, has been a shot of political Viagra...
Whether or not the Fang deal is blocked, it's the worst of times for Examiner employees. "Boy, have our failings been shoved in our face lately," wrote Examiner columnist Rob Morse after spending three days in the courtroom listening to embarrassing revelations like the horse trading with Brown. "The San Francisco Examiner is dying, and it can't even die with dignity." William Randolph Hearst, who once dubbed his paper "the monarch of the dailies," would probably agree...