Word: five
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Bridget Mergens Mayhew, the idea of forming an extracurricular Christian club at Omaha's Westside High School five years ago seemed simple enough. "There are a lot of pressures on kids," she recalls, "and we just wanted to get together and pray." But school authorities turned down her plea, fearing it would violate the separation of church and state. The refusal touched off a fractious legal battle that last week culminated in a spectacular win for Mayhew and her friends: a major decision from the U.S. Supreme Court barring discrimination against voluntary religious clubs in public high schools. The court...
Ducc was arrested two months earlier on an ADW (assault with a deadly weapon), one of many brushes with the law. His family history is standard for the neighborhood: his mother died when he was five; his father, a first- generation gang member, has spent the past five years in prison; his older brother, 17, is also in the gang. What little care Ducc has received came from his grandmother. Ducc happens to be bright -- smart enough, in fact, to be discovered by the I Have a Dream Foundation, which selects gifted ghetto kids and pays their college tuition...
...News on his paper route and twirls a baton at the head of an Irish Republican marching band. I.R.A. men in the neighborhood all know him. Chuckie comes from a long line of I.R.A. fighters, from his grandfather, who fought the British in the 1930s, to four of his five uncles. He is entrusted with small errands -- delivering a message, watching police and British army patrols in the neighborhood, watching the neighbors...
...very different sport from American Graffiti-style cruising. Kids steal a car, then speed through the streets, too often crashing through police barricades or into oncoming cars. Because the cops tend to start shooting at the first glimpse of a careering stolen vehicle, joyriders will place a four- or five-year-old up against the back window to discourage the fire. Afterward they often strip the car and sell the parts. The joyriders grab cars from Catholic more than from Protestant neighborhoods, so the I.R.A. has taken to kneecapping those whom they capture. For every child who wants no part...
...commemorate, school is out and nights are warm. It's a time when the air of Belfast is thin with the promise of excitement, and mothers pray for rain. "The lads don't go out and fight as much when it's raining," says Betty, 33. Four of her five brothers have done time, and her three sons are all adept at making petrol bombs. Even the six- year-old, whose forehead is blackened by a burn mark he got while making a petrol bomb, won't stay inside when a barricade goes...