Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Witnesses reported a small boy killed and a girl wounded in the head. Police in riot gear cruised the streets in vans as night fell, beating up and shooting passers...
...care program for the poor is that it is a health care program for the poor. Recipients are stigmatized and often embarrassed to participate in the system. Doctors, receiving lower rates of payment, often provide a lower quality of care. And the federal government has a ready-made whipping boy should the budget deficit need a trim. Very few speak out for Medicaid on Capitol Hill...
...impossible to succeed enough to satisfy this woman," writes Baker, who sounds as if he does not believe how far he has come. To hear Baker tell of his rise from newspaper delivery boy to the Baltimore Sun's man about London and Washington, one would think he still regards himself as an ink- stained wretch...
What "they" did to him began, he says, when he was a boy, the product of a broken home in New York City's Harlem. By nine, he was a chronic and violent troublemaker. When he was given mental tests, he threatened to set fire to the hospital ward and kill a doctor. The tests showed that Bosket was suffering from a severe antisocial personality disorder. His helpless mother had him sent to a reform school, where he began to emulate his father...
...Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich get it handed -- they inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. That's shared bounty of class...