Word: though
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...father shot her, leaving her legs paralyzed. His dad left the family, and Brandon grew up in a neighborhood rife with drugs and gangs, where even little kids learn to act tough. By sixth grade, Brandon was becoming too much for his mom - and his school - to handle. Though he showed promise on aptitude tests, he scored Ds and Fs in his classes and was constantly in trouble for fighting with other students...
...this new context seems to help many of the Baraka kids redirect their lives. Kevin Prem, now 15, joined a gang when he was only 10. By the time he was 12, his two older brothers and nine of his friends had dropped out of school. At Baraka, though, Kevin got his temper under control and won five awards for academic excellence. Now he plans to be a prosecuting attorney, so he can put in jail "people who sell drugs to kids." Daryl Stewart, now 16, had been kicked out of six schools before going to Baraka. Today...
Apparently, though, some of the kind folks in Providence have lost sight of that fact. In yesterday's edition of Brown's student newspaper, the Daily Herald, a reporter praised the Brown women's soccer team for "soundly thrashing" the Crimson. That assessment might come as somewhat of a surprise to those who attended the game or even looked at the box score. The Crimson outshot the Bears, 20-10, and earned ten corner kicks compared to the Bears...
...would not be ordered to act against the people should be read as coming from Milosevic himself. Some may have speculated that Pavkovic is looking for a place in a Kostunica government, but there's no chance of that. He was Milosevic's choice to head the army, even though he enjoys little support within the ranks. And he actively campaigned for Milosevic...
...governor pressed the case that Al Gore couldn't be trusted to keep the good times rolling. Arguing that Gore blows the bank with his spending promises, W. resurrected the same liberal ghosts that his father used so successfully to haunt Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race. Though he didn't use the word "liberal," Bush said the vice president represented "the old ways of tax and spend," and sketched a Gore world where a tax collector stooped under every stairway and the gargantuan federal government would awaken and slouch toward your hometown. "For him big government has never...