Word: afraid
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...crime. But while Americans have largely soured on the idea of rehabilitation for adult offenders--even some liberal criminologists have conceded that the most ruthless teen felons must be locked up--polls also show most people to be less sure that children can't be turned back. "I'm afraid this bill will gobble up some juveniles who do not really fit the most extreme category," says Democrat Joseph Biden of Delaware, the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...Highland Township teenagers who hopped the CSX train on June 18 were far from pros. Afraid to jump off at Holly, they froze and wound up 25 miles north in a rough section of Flint. One of the boys, Michael Carter, 14, ended up dead. Another, Dustin Kaiser, 15, was beaten brutally before taking a bullet in the head. And the third, Nicole, 14, whose family asked that only her first name be used in this story, was pistol-whipped and shot in the face after being forced to perform oral sex. A few days later, six suspects, four...
...their disillusionment we deal with in many ways; it's a kind of crust we have to break through." In the title song on Pieces of You, Jewel attacks religious and sexual intolerance, her voice breaking as she sings, "You say he's a faggot. Are you afraid you're just the same?"; one of Chapman's newest songs is titled The Rape of the World...
...richest woman around has been in mourning for her late husband so long that her sorrow has become a career. Her family can't console her; the managers of the conglomerate she heads are afraid to challenge her. Then her death-in-life is changed by a humble--actually, a quite arrogant--horseman named John Brown. He speaks boldly to her and rudely to her children. He takes her on long walks, gives her counsel; most important, he makes her laugh. She is, again, a woman in love. Gossips derisively call her "Mrs. Brown...
...were afraid of criticism, this would be the wrong job," he said. "There are easier ways to make a living...