Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before, a story that frustrates his mother, given his 2.0 grade-point average. "I always tell him, 'You've already got two strikes against you: you're black, and you're male. The only thing that's going to get you where you want to go in life is an education...
...lucky I haven't had a nervous breakdown," says Janet Gewinner as she looks on while her 17-year-old son Matt leaves for hockey practice. She reminds him to take the medication in the kitchen. For him it is a life-and-death issue...
Just before Matt leaves this evening, he pulls out a planner complete with pictures of his deceased friends, business cards of the hospitals he has stayed in and other painful memorabilia. "It's part of my life," says Matt. "I'll show this to my kids...
...Bobby is at an inflection point that will largely determine the course of his life. Right now he's got athletic talent and fame, and everyone wishes him well. But will he build on that, or will he peak as a senior in high school? He has applied to join the Navy, but still hopes for a football scholarship to college. One problem: his GPA is 1.6, and he has only seven months to pull that up to a 2.0 to be eligible for college sports and, more important, to get enough English credits to graduate. Another is that until...
...ebullient; it is deafening. "It's bigger than band," says Herm Adams, who convened it. "It's the largest group in the school." Actually, not in the school. One of the peculiarities of life in Webster Groves is that in a community in which Catholicism is the largest Christian denomination, and in a school that has no on-campus prayer groups, the most important weekday social event is Club, the entry level of a national Evangelical group called Young Life...