Word: boye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where did these respectable law-breakers come from all of a sudden? Randall Terry is this year's most obvious symbol of the right-to-life movement. An ordained preacher who physically resembles former boy evangelist Marjoe Gortner, Terry dropped out of high school, had a "conversion experience," then went to Elim Bible Institute in Lima, N.Y. He started picketing abortion clinics, along with his wife, in 1984 while working for a car salesman. Before Terry came along there had been large lobbying and education groups in the field for decades -- the National Right to Life Committee, the Human Rights...
...about 225 kids and 75 parents are participating in Carrera's three Harlem-based programs. Carrera's track record is impressive. In four years only two girls have become pregnant and, as far as the counselors can tell from their intimate weekly individual discussions with the kids, only one boy has fathered a child. "This is not a value-free program," he explains. "We have a message that delaying sexual activity is good. We are taking a stand." This year the Childrens Aid Society is establishing the Stern National Training Center for Family Life Education in Manhattan, where Carrera will...
...begins to maunder soon after and degenerates into a fairly close approximation of a jam session by a forgotten, early '70s band. The side closes with the title track, which reverses the problems of the opening cut; a suitably anthemic chorus is surrounded by a song about a "young boy" named "Johnny" who could "make the young girls...
...Celtics say it was just a coincidence, but why did they activate Larry Bird right before their playoff series against the Detroit Pistons? Did they need a new towel boy...
...boy's sport, a man's game. Baseball lodges in the American male heart because the fundamentals look easy enough for any Little Leaguer to master. Too soon, men realize that pro ball demands a genius for grace, concentration and magnificent egotism. They may agonize over the career path not chosen, the debt too steep, the woman so close but just beyond their reach. For many, though, a dream of athletic stardom is the one that got away. So they stick with baseball, living and dying with their team, analyzing stats with the rapt anguish of a rabbinical student cramming...