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...lecturer in the History and Literature department and the Kennedy School of Government, and a resident tutor in Quincy House, has a much more personal reason called him back to Cambridge. While pursuing a PhD at Columbia University in summer 1998, McCarthy became legal guardian of Malcolm Green, a boy he had mentored through the Big Brother program as an undergraduate. McCarthy essentially “adopted and raised him through high school,” while simultaneously writing his dissertation and teaching in Hist & Lit—a job, he notes, he was fortunate...
...seem popular instead of just really creepy. World Wide Web (1991) The arrival of the Internet Age provides relief for blue-balled males (and females?) on Friday nights. Lorena Bobbatt Trial (1993) Remember when that crazy lady castrated her husband? Guys locked themselves in their rooms for weeks. Soulja Boy (2007) This song was the centerpiece of every party for at least six months, but it was only good the first five times. Plus it got a lot of people dancing who probably should have stayed by the drinks—you don’t have rhythm...
Boes says the parents who are leaving their kids shouldn't be demonized. "Father Flanagan said it: he learned there was no such thing as a bad boy. And I have come to believe there is no such thing as a bad family." There is a 12-year-old girl at Boys Town now who desperately wants to see her mother, he says, the same mother who broke the girl's arm and used to hold her down and burn her with cigarettes. "Why, I wonder? But if she can see something good there, surely there is good...
Lawmakers sympathetic to the parents and guardians of older troubled children note that Omaha is, after all, home to the original Boys Town of Father Flanagan fame. In the city, there's a statue of one young boy carrying another on his back, with the words chiseled underneath, "He ain't heavy, Father, he's m' brother." During the Great Depression, parents would scrape together bus fare and hang a sign that read "Take Me to Boys Town" around their child's neck. Tysheema Brown, the Atlanta woman who drove 1,000 miles to Omaha to drop...
...seat on the Environment and Public Works Committee. "I would defy anyone to be more angry than I was," says Reid. "But I also believe that if you look at the problems we face as a nation, is this a time we walk out of here saying, 'Boy, did we get even...