Word: kidded
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...will never find someone as focused as that kid,” Stambene says. “Once Harvard was set as a goal, there was never a question of getting there—that was always going to happen. He just went a roundabout way, but he never took his eyes off that prize...
...American public is like Sleeping Beauty, waiting to be kissed awake by the prince of folk music," said Albert Grossman, a Chicago entrepreneur, at the first Newport Folk Festival, in 1959. Bob Dylan, whose manager Grossman became in 1962, may have been that prince, but the raspy-voiced kid needed troubadours to sell his message to the masses. Grossman had seen Travers perform with her friends Peter Yarrow and Noel Stookey; he took them on, changed Noel's name to Paul and got the group a contract with the new Warner Bros. Records. Peter, Paul and Mary's self-titled...
Your boyfriend is applying to med schools, your best friend has three amazing magazine internships under her belt….even the greasy kid down the hall has a full-time job offer, and it’s only September...
...dispute is also spilling over into the new commissioner's plan to shift all but the most dangerous, violent kids (estimated to be 10%-20% of the total) from some form of detention to community-based programs. These are far cheaper, and if adequately funded and well-run, they have proved to be more effective in shrinking recidivism rates; currently it costs as much as $200,000 a year to keep a kid in a facility, and 80% of those are rearrested before they turn 28. (More than half of those still in detention are in for misdemeanors...
...trained and required to do. Though the county medical examiner ruled it a homicide, an upstate grand jury declined to indict the two men. Thompson's mother is suing the state, which is answering the complaint but offered TIME no comment about the case. "There are some tough kids in the system, but Darryl was a basically good kid," says Bob Keach, who is representing the family. "He died because of an argument over rec time - the highlight of his day. That should never happen to any kid, and we're suing so that never happens again...