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...boys of inner-city Baltimore don't get to be boys for long. Brandon Harlee was two years old, in his mother's arms, when his father shot her, leaving her legs paralyzed. His dad left the family, and Brandon grew up in a neighborhood rife with drugs and gangs, where even little kids learn to act tough. By sixth grade, Brandon was becoming too much for his mom - and his school - to handle. Though he showed promise on aptitude tests, he scored Ds and Fs in his classes and was constantly in trouble for fighting with other students...
...Brandon was well on his way to joining the two-thirds of black males in Baltimore who don't graduate from high school - and perhaps the nearly 50% who end up in jail or on probation - when almost miraculously he was lifted out of that hellish environment and settled into a boarding school in rural Kenya. There, he and other Baltimore boys who had been forced to grow up too hard and fast got a second chance to experience childhood - to climb trees, collect insects, do their homework together, read mystery novels. After attending seventh and eighth grades in Kenya...
...Brandon P. Jones '00 was one of the few graduates looking for a job at the meeting...
According to BSA Treasurer Brandon A. Gayle '03, 154 people had paid their dues and were entered into the lottery as of 8 p.m. Sunday. (Last year Gayle noted, "roughly" 37 people paid the money.) The lottery closed at midnight this morning, and the lucky 100 will be notified soon...
...glad to see the posters," wrote Mather resident Brandon K. Walston '01 in an e-mail message. "However, I just wish that they'd been put up sooner--the day following the actual robbery rather than almost a week afterwards...