Word: inners
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There are the inner-city kids of Rize, who raise local spirits by dressing up in clown costumes and performing an impossibly energetic, strenuously graceful "ghetto ballet." Or the Dominican preteens in New York City who take up ballroom dancing in Mad Hot Ballroom, or the music students in Rock School. And though the quadriplegics who play a brutal form of wheelchair rugby in Murderball are gruff, grown men, they too are capable of uplift. "I'm alive," says one. "I use everything I have, to get through life. That's what we're all here to do. Use everything...
...newspaper, science-fair club, volleyball, math league, spelling bees. The boys'varsity basketball team won the championship trophy in the Chicago Unity league, an interfaith conference. Students take part in community-service outings with other private schools, bag food twice a month for two homeless shelters in Chicago's inner city and work as volunteer nurse's aides at the local hospital...
...Franklin doesn’t call his youth in Los Angeles an inner-city success story...
...grew up in inner-city L.A., you know.” But, he says, “My life was great…I had a great family. [The neighborhood] was pretty ghetto, I’ll be honest, but we lived well...
...It’s playoff time, it’s do-or-die, and anything can happen,” Corriero said. “I was facing potentially the last game of my hockey career and you find that inner strength to go that extra bit because you don’t want...