Word: haling
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Saying no to guns is still easy for any self-respecting teenager with a little sense, but dealing with guys who do have guns is an excruciating business. Steve, 14, stopped walking home alone from school last year when many of his fellow seventh-graders at Hale Junior High started talking up guns. "Some guys just started to change. It became cool to say you could get a gun," he says. "Nobody messes with you if they even think you may have a gun." Polite, clean-cut and still displaying the awkwardness of adolescence, Steve says he lives in almost...
Purchase of the newly renovated facility was made possible by a $2 million gift by the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr...
...very generous arrangement," said Burg. "We are very appreciative to Hale and Dorr and the law school...
...sure that [the use of 'like'] is functional," Hale said. "The choice to use it is to adopt a social badge. It's part of saying I'm young and I feel myself allied with my social group...
...Although Hale says that people do not consciously choose to start saying the word, there is a subconscious decision because "We want to sound like cool people...