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...consider that possibility last week. They arrested Bernadette Protti, 16, and charged her with the killing last June of Kirsten Costas, 15, a fellow student at Miramonte High School. Kirsten had beaten out Bernadette and other applicants for a cheerleader's position. The stabbing had shocked the affluent city...
...only have the Bishops faced well-organized opposition from a group of affluent Catholic businessmen, but they've encountered accusations of overstepping their religious bounds, skepticism from a philosophically conservative Vatican, and growing estrangement from this country's faithful...
...responsible for a crime if, as a result of mental disease, he or she lacks the capacity to "appreciate" the wrongfulness of his or her conduct. But the case also made light of a "well guarded secret." According to the opinion, the majority of responsibility cases concern indigents, not affluent defendants with easy access to legal and psychiatric assistance...
When the draft board turned down Kerry's proposal to study in Europe after graduating from Yale, Kerry joined the Navy as an officer. Like President John F. Kennedy '40, a boyhood hero with whom Kerry shares initials and an affluent Catholic backround, Kerry became a war hero as a small-boat commander, winning the Bronze Star, the Silver Star and three Purple Hearts...
Coles, author of the five-volume Children of Crisis, initiated a small controversy of his own by announcing that fears of nuclear war among the young are largely confined to children of affluent parents. Most studies have concluded that such fears are spread fairly evenly among children of classes and races. The University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, which has been polling students nation wide at about 130 high schools since 1975, reports that 30% of its respondents worry often about war; the rate holds steady for blacks and whites, for those who are college-bound...