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Shirley and Earl McNall knew they had one hot little entrepreneur on their hands. Son Bruce was only five, and he could wipe everybody out at the Monopoly board, building hotels on all the expensive properties, leaving his mom stewing with an empty lot, say, on low-rent Baltic Avenue. Dazzled, the mother, a lab technician, and the father, a biochemistry professor at the University of Southern California, rationed Bruce's television watching and showered him with intellectual goodies...
...same fate could have befallen Iman Reed. At age 11, Iman liked to pick fights on the streets of Wichita, Kansas, making him a prime target for a revenge shooting. Then his mom enrolled him in a Big Brother program, which paired him with a police detective. Five years later, Iman is pulling down A's and B's in school, and has his sights set on a law degree. Reflecting back, he concludes, "If I wasn't in the program, I'd be in one of those gangs." Or dead...
...renouncing my Tennessee state membership," Edwards said. "Every Democrat lost by like 30 points. My mom said we're moving...
Lidia (Lexi Randall) and her younger brother Stu (Elijah Wood) have it rough. Mom (Mare Winningham) has to be the family glue, because Dad (Kevin Costner) has returned from Vietnam damaged and crushed. By most standards, he is a failure, so he pours his ambitions into his kids, who think he's a saint. "Maybe he died in that war," one of them says, "and God sent him back to us for one last visit." If so, it is to supervise, by remote control, a replay of his and America's Vietnam trauma...
...companies send out these cards, and the students will run up a big bill, and probably the worst thing that will ever happen mom and dad will pay it. It's purely a profit motive," Speights says...