Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seller The Bonfire of the Vanities. Joseph Castro, a 38-year-old janitor, stands accused of killing a neighbor and her two-year-old daughter. According to the prosecutors, a portion of DNA extracted from a spot of blood on Castro's watch matched DNA taken from the murdered mother. The chance of such a match occurring at random, said scientists called by the prosecution, was 1 in 100 million...
...mother, dead now to this world but still roaming free in my mind, wakes me some mornings before daybreak. 'If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quitter.' I have heard her say that all my life. Now, lying in bed, coming awake in the dark, I feel the fury of her energy fighting the good-for-nothing idler within me who wants to go back to sleep instead of tackling the brave...
...food for reflection. "I can say with all conviction that genetics has played a role in what I am. But what I learned from my father's life was never to conform to the system, never to forgive, as he did." The "system," he adds, became his "surrogate mother...
Bosket has now filed a suit against his surrogate mother, charging cruel and unusual punishment at Woodbourne. He is also angry because the authorities have ignored an eight-page handwritten letter in which Bosket volunteered himself for study as a way to help prevent future Boskets. "It's all just theater to Willie, and we try not to give him a stage," says Thomas Coughlin III, New York's commissioner of correctional services...
...medium seems to undercut the other. But if they can be reconciled, then Roland Gift has the cool to bring it off. One wants to retain a little mystery as a . performer and steer clear of typecasting, especially along color lines. In fact, his father was black and his mother white, but further details of the family history are dear. The middle child in a family of five, Gift, 28, grew up in Hull, a small port city in the industrial north. "My father died when I was very young," he says. "My mother's a dealer. Not crack...