Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge boy reported that a dog attacked him. He and three friends were playing basketball at Columbia Park when the suspect, who is also a juvenile, ordered his pit-bull to attack. No one was injured...
...burka, the full-body shroud Afghan women are forced to wear. But she's emerged to give voice to those very women. "Silence," she says, "is killing" the women of Afghanistan, where the Taliban, an extreme faction of mujahedin, largely composed of Lord of the Flies-like boy soldiers, swept to power in 1996. Women, who made up 40% of doctors and 70% of teachers in the capital, were forced to abandon Western clothes and stay indoors behind windows painted black "for their own good." If they show any skin or go outside without a male relative, they risk death...
...Dole is determined to show that her positions come from her own work with desperate refugees, rather than from pillow talk with Bob, who served as Clinton's envoy on one Kosovo mission in early March; billionaire publisher Steve Forbes wants to show he really knows the issues, the boy in the front row with his hand up who can tell you his five-point plan, complete with exactly how many tanks there are in Kosovo and Belgrade...
...applicant whose family had serious bidding potential might have difficulty getting in on the original round of uncompensated acceptances. I can imagine the sort of conversation some Ivy League admissions director might have one day with, say, Bill Gates: "Well, yes, Mr. Gates, it's true that a boy with 1600 SAT scores who was first in his class and the star of the football team--particularly a boy with that sort of talent on the cello, not to speak of the courage and presence of mind to save six nuns from drowning during a hurricane--makes a strong candidate...
...yens' worth, or $8,300, he will be set free. (He wins some dog food, for a while his only nourishment. And finally, after months--toilet paper!) He may not even know that the Japanese TV variety show sponsoring him, Susunu Denpa Shonen (Don't Go for It, Electric Boy!), is airing his solitary confinement in 15-minute segments each Sunday night. That's awful! That's sadistic! And, you admit with a grimace, that's entertainment...