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...There weren't any chickwiches," he said. "Thekids here like them too much, and they decided tokeep 'em here...
...somebody that's down the street, and you can help `em, right?" Perot said...
...historic sweep. The onset of the cold war, the Marshall Plan, the seizure of the steel mills, the Korean War and the sacking of General Douglas MacArthur all read like chapters from an epic novel, and best of all is the wild whistle-stop campaign of 1948, where "Give 'Em Hell" Harry defied the pundits and drew tumultuous crowds to win the most famous upset in American history. McCullough also lovingly captures Truman's sparkle by drawing on the marvelous trove of letters he wrote...
...classic good ol' boy who oppresses his wife, sexually harasses his secretary ("There are laws about safety in the workplace and you just ignore 'em with those hazardous things o' yours, Miss Undertow"), and makes speeches about the "brown tide of wetbacks" encroaching on "this great white nation...
...replace the things that are missing in gang-ridden communities. "No more than 10% of any gang are hard-core, shoot-'em-up, hope-to-die criminals," Valdivia says. "But you won't find the Boy Scouts in South Central L.A. Most kids join gangs because that's what there is to join." And, like diseases, gangs can be contagious. According to University of Southern California gang expert Malcolm W. Klein, in 1961 there were 23 cities with known street gangs nationwide. Today there are 187. Practically every state has some kind of gang problem. Nor is it limited...