Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Houston. News item: A 10 year-old boy shot his mother and father with a .38 pistol because "they refused to let him go outside to play...
...questions themselves are not enough for us: we want explanations as well. Taking on the guise of armchair psychologists, we point to Hart's puritanical mother. Perhaps his childhood of repression was the key to his adulthood of lechery. When we are at loss for answers we turn to "experts" such as former Hart pollster Pat Caddell who, in the most ominous of tones, confides to us that Hart has had a long-standing political death wish...
...things that others do not have. God? Bring back my parents, my poor parents, protect them (even more than myself) so that I may see them again as soon as possible. Have them come back one more time. Oh! I can say that I have had such a good mother, and such a good father! I have such faith in You that I thank You in advance." Of what was this child guilty...
Under ordinary circumstances, a missing check might attract little notice. But the aggrieved party was Mother Teresa, the gentle Nobel Peace laureate, and the money involved was a donation to support her work with children in Calcutta's slums. Indian police soon homed in on the mail-sorting office at Calcutta Airport. There they found a ring systematically filching check- stuffed envelopes addressed to the nun, and sending them to accomplices in Hong Kong and Singapore to be cashed or stashed in bank accounts...
...date police have traced $150,000 in stolen funds and arrested six people, but the investigation is far from complete. "It is a terrible thing," said Mother Teresa. "Many of the donors are small children who save money and send it to feed hungry children...