Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possible that more light will be shed on the subject next month, when the first of three Straight Edgers goes on trial for the murder last Halloween of Bernardo Repreza Jr., 15, a Hispanic youth. Repreza, whose father moved here from California to get his son away from violence, was attacked with a bat, a knife and police batons. "I don't understand," Bernardo Repreza Sr. says of a bizarro culture in which having a beer is taboo but clubbing someone to death is A-O.K. "It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard...
...father says, emerging from the house. And so are Jesse's two brothers, Lim adds with regret. Jesse, outed as a tough guy, tells all to the cops, a quiver in his throat. If he goes to jail instead of going on the Mormon mission abroad that he's been counting on, Lim says, it's his own fault. "I sure wish I understood what this Straight Edge was all about...
...Spyridon wanted to hush the case up. They also said he was traditionalist and high-handed, espousing monastic beards and ceremonial hats for priests and castigating American touches like female choir participation. When more than 100 priests--including the Rev. Robert Stephanopoulos, a popular Manhattan cleric and George's father--signed a letter criticizing him, he handed Stephanopoulos a de facto demotion. A dissident campaign sprang up, organized via websites. Its message, says Dean Popps, a leader, was, "This guy's gotta go." In January all five U.S. senior bishops publicly agreed, flying to Constantinople (as the Greek Church still...
...room doctors had doped him to keep him calm. He had gone crazy, they said, when they strapped him to the hospital bed. (I'd fight too!) He'd had three beers, they said, and was uncontrollable--a man who weighed only 130 lbs. In just three days my father went from being self-sufficient to an invalid. His injuries? A two-stitch cut on his head...
...home with six residents--they can't watch him every minute. It took the new doctors forever, in my view, to diagnose an underactive thyroid, which caused some of his confusion. He is in what doctors tell me is the early stages of Alzheimer's. Yet both his father and his aunt lived to 96. Will he have another 12 years of living in this netherworld...