Word: blonds
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...women are accused of directly prostituting and raping girls and boys, some of whom were still in kindergarten. Prosecutors say that over three years, some 21 couples traded their children for cash, groceries and, in one case, a new car tire. According to prosecutors, Marine V., a pretty blond girl who's now 9, was just one of the victims. She was allegedly raped by about 30 men, including neighbors, uncles, her father and grandfather. Marine's mother acted as banker, allege prosecutors, collecting envelopes full of cash. In their small voices, the children's excruciating account of their nightmare...
...threw me off was that the story has no reek of allegory or race didacticism where you might expect it. Instead, there’s humor, as when a black woman confronts Julia in the grocery store about how to properly style Gabe’s hair, a naturally blond hue which she accuses Julia of peroxiding, or when Julia’s friends speculate about the real identity of the baby’s father...
...Franklin was born, blue and breathless. The doctor urged that she avoid further pregnancies, which she may have done by totally abstaining from sex. Her dedication to young Franklin was of an intensity bordering on the morbid. She kept him in girlish skirts and long blond curls until he was nearly six. Every hour of his day followed a strict schedule: up at 7, breakfast at 8, lessons from 9 to noon...
...year prostitution ring from a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Dubbed the Mayflower Madam by the press, Barrows had been as thrifty and practical as her Pilgrim forebears could have wished, claiming 60% of each call girl's earnings. Last week, after plea bargaining, the trim blond pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution. The surprisingly solicitous arrangement allowed her to keep more than $150,000 in profits from her escort agencies and fined her only $5,000 (she could have been sentenced to a year in jail...
...Platinum Plan: Remember that pretty blond kid from Fight Club with the collapsed nose? That’s what Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty will do to irregularities in the Big Dig’s finances...