Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case is complex enough to merit consideration. For while his "confessions" may be tasteless and disturbing, he tempers them with a sort of pathetic self-pity ("I am not an assassin, but rather a human being with a deep compassion for little children"). He also tells of a ghetto boyhood in Passaic, N.J., and football as his only way out. At every stage of his career, Tatum says, he has been judged mostly by how hard he hits, first by a shrewd high school coach, later by Ohio State's notorious Woody Hayes, and finally by the Raiders...