Word: girls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Akouk allegedly took the girl to her bedroom and raped her again while holding a knife to her throat, according to the Boston Globe...
...girl's stepfather, Thomas Branchini, told the Boston Globe that the incident has been highly distressing and that it will take time and counseling to heal...
...evidence linking him to the victim and no credible evidence linking him to the crime scene--was painfully weak. So was the case in Tulsa, Okla., against Tim Durham, who spent six years in prison (of a 3,220-year sentence) for the rape of an 11-year-old girl, until DNA cleared him. The jury ignored 11 alibi witnesses who swore Durham was at a skeet-shooting contest when the crime occurred...
...comes to doofus teenagers--works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform. For the coming-of-age cliches don't stop once Tim settles in at Cornwall. There are a sadistic housemaster, a hidebound headmaster, a geeky roommate and a duplicitous pal to contend with, and the prettiest girl on campus (Amy Smart) to woo, ruin and redeem. One finds oneself asking how such familiar stuff breeds contentment instead of contempt...
Bill Sims and Karen Wilson meet in 1967 in Ohio, where Bill, who is black, is regularly harassed for consorting with a white girl. The family eventually moves to Queens, N.Y., and thrives as a benevolent, good-humored fortress. But as elder daughter Cicily finds at college, the outside world eventually intrudes. The most hurtful prejudice she encounters is from black classmates--a situation that comes to a head when she spends a semester in Africa that deepens and complicates her identity. And yet that self-fulfilling racist caution, "What about the children?," hardly obtains. Both Cicily and her sister...