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When Joe's second son, John F. Kennedy, was ready to make his run for the presidency, the family fortune was estimated to be between $300 million and $500 million, one of the world's great private hoards. "I never felt the Great Depression firsthand," Senator Kennedy said as he campaigned in 1960. "I learned about it at Harvard." By then, the moneymaking was clearly of secondary importance in the Kennedy ambitions. "None of my children give a damn about business," Joe said with pride. "The only thing that matters is family. I tell them that when they end this...
When asked about the excessive police brutality that is explicitly detailed in so many accounts of the 1969 riots, Doherty says he never saw any firsthand, "but there probably was, I wouldn't be surprised...
...have grown up with the Internet, so I know firsthand what the dangers are and what the pleasures can be. Those who say violent games are the reason for the Colorado high school shootings must not have played the games all that much. I have played every 3-D shoot-'em-up there is. The games don't desensitize people. If adults try to limit what kids do on the Internet, they are limiting information that can help them later in life. DAVID GREGORY, 15 Boulder Creek, Calif...
...aspiring public school teacher, I know firsthand that raising teachers' salaries will attract better teachers, that teachers work just as much or more than professionals who are paid much more, and that raising teachers' salaries only requires the redirection of funds already earmarked for education to those areas that will cause the greatest improvements in public school education...
Barrios said he also has a personal attachment to the bill because as a Latino, he knows firsthand the problems non-English-speakers face in the emergency room...