Word: boyness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tuesday medal ceremony, when he stood by George and Sally Monsoor and told Michael's story, provided a glimpse--not of a President with any doubt of the justice of his cause but certainly of a man reckoning with its cost. Bush talked about the rebellious little boy who grew into a resourceful and remarkable man before he died on that roof on St. Michael's Day, Sept. 29, 2006. "America owes you a debt that can never be repaid," he told Monsoor's parents, and as the full citation was read, Bush's eyes narrowed and glimmered, then...
...that lead us to better beliefs. But we also need popular culture. It doesn’t tell us what to think—it tells us that others think what we think, too. It is the voice of the silent majority; it is the emperor’s boy...
...academic development, which often translates into academic success and a willingness to debate in that battle-field of a Harvard section.BOYS WILL BE BOYSIt isn’t a secret that a certain amount of gender stereotyping occurs during high school—especially at a testosterone-jammed all-boys prep school. And this stereotyping, that is frequently exacerbated at single-sex schools, can oftentimes affect a student’s college career. Alexander M. Fuller ’10, who attended Belmont Hill School, an all-boys private school in Belmont, Mass., notes that the typical male stereotype definitely...
...Stanley Ann DunhamBorn in 1942, just five years before Hillary Clinton, Obama's mother came into an America constrained by war, segregation and a distrust of difference. Her parents named her Stanley because her father had wanted a boy. She endured the expected teasing over this indignity, but dutifully lugged the name through high school, apologizing for it each time she introduced herself in a new town...
...same under their skin, that bigotry of any sort was wrong and that the goal was then to treat everybody as unique individuals." Ann gave her daughter, who was born in 1970, dolls of every hue: "A pretty black girl with braids, an Inuit, Sacagawea, a little Dutch boy with clogs," says Soetoro-Ng, laughing. "It was like the United Nations." (Watch a slideshow of Joe Klein's exclusive interview with Obama...