Word: boys
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...Tocqueville myself, but I'm not sure that a defense of the moneyed elite was what Alexis had in mind when he wrote his tome. The final clubs are wealthy, prejudicial associations with a long sexist and racist heritage. They are bastions of old-boy networking and prep-school traditionalism, with wealthy alumni now working at Merrill Lynch and the State Department who fund the clubs and their beautiful limited-access buildings. As Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says, "the final clubs are where Harvard students learn to discriminate...
...There's two schools of thought" among Massachusetts voters, he adds. "One is that it's a complete waste of time to vote with the Democrats... The other line of thinking is, "Let's go out for the hometown boy and give him a big vote...
Russell joined Dukakis--and most of her Council colleagues--during a campaign stop at a North Cambridge nursing home on Tuesday. But she planned to spend Saturday night at a Boy Scouts' testimonial dinner, not on the campaign trail...
...hilly precincts of Chattanooga these days, a lot of get-ahead people are doing combat against the peril of forward tongue carry. They are running through word lists, striving to keep their monosyllables crisp: "What kind of boy is George? Mean. Mean-mean-mean-mean-mean...
This task entails a willed return to innocence, to the raw emotions of an 18-year-old boy as he says goodbye to his father at the Minneapolis train station and sets off on an odyssey that will take him, in carefully prearranged steps, to bombing raids over Okinawa. Along the way, the provincial Midwesterner discovers unfamiliar places in his native land: Denton, Texas; Athens, Ga.; Memphis and air stations scattered along the coasts of Florida and California. He and the friends he acquires learn to fly planes, the machines and the maneuvers growing increasingly complex: "Sometimes I had secret...