Word: doorsteps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kozol is not really trying to be fair. An award-winning gadfly of the Boston schools where he once taught (Death at an Early Age, Illiterate America), he is trying to assault and appall his readers, to jar them from their complacent acceptance of the young beggars on their doorstep. To some extent, he succeeds in arousing anger. He quotes Robert Coles as saying that these are times when people "have to throw up their hands in heaviness of heart . . . and say, in desperation: God save them, those children; and for allowing such a state of affairs to continue...
Then, after 61 minutes and 13 seconds, McShane scored from the doorstep, and the 135 fans in Meehan went wild...
...secretive and closeted denizens. Early Graves (Mysterious Press; 184 pages; $15.95) is not the first novel to deal with the impact of AIDS and will surely not be the last, but it will probably rank with the best. It begins with Brandstetter's discovery of a corpse on his doorstep, the latest in a string of victims who were all dying of the virus already. His effort to unravel what turns out to be two related mysteries takes him to the homes of abandoned victims, grieving families and lovers, co- workers deep into denial. Their quicksand feelings of fear mingled...
...Crimson (now 3-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy) notched its first goal when Co-Captain Julie Sasner found linemate Brita Lind on the doorstep. Lind put the puck behind Yale goalie Tiff Bingham for a 1-0 lead with 1:21 gone in the first period...
...that third period, Providence began to take control. Linstad tapped in a goal from the doorstep after White made three point-blank saves; Heather LaDuke put a slapshot in the top shelf, and then Linstad banked her third goal off the top of White's shoulder to put the game out of reach...