Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week earlier, Leroy--an eight-year-old whom family called B.J.--was shot in the back and head as he and his mother raced up their stairs, trying in vain to escape an intruder. His mom Karen Clarke, 30, was shot twice in the back. It looked like an execution, for B.J. was the star witness in a murder trial...
...summer day in 1997, Rudolph Snead, his mother's boyfriend, had picked B.J. up from basketball, his daily passion. Someone in another car shot at Snead. A bullet grazed Snead's forehead and broke glass that cut B.J. Police charged Russell Peeler with the attempted murder; both Snead and B.J. identified Peeler as the shooter. Peeler and Snead knew each other and were said to be fighting over money...
...mother was trying to make a new start. She had a solid job at U-Haul and a duplex in a middle-class neighborhood. She recently told B.J.'s father that she "was finally getting somewhere in life." Patrolmen watched her place last year for a few days, but police say she called them off. It was intrusive and, she reportedly said, conspicuous. In the icy clime of Bridgeport, the coldest truth about these murders may be that there was little that could have been done to prevent them...
...Bills began life worlds apart. Clinton's childhood in small-town, 1940s Arkansas was shaped by a mother who worked as a nurse and played at the racetrack, and an alcoholic stepfather. Gates, by contrast, was born into the Seattle upper crust, his father a lawyer and his mother president of the Junior League. Gates was a skinny prep school kid who spent all his free time in the computer lab--a nerd before the term was invented, a former teacher once said. Clinton, even in his schoolboy days, was the smooth saxophone player who used his music to meet...
...basement of her family's two-story house, flips on her computer and bangs out a one-page book report on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. After half an hour of work, Molly takes the paper upstairs and gives it to her mother Libby for proofreading. As Molly nibbles a snack of a bagel and orange-spice tea, Mom jots some corrections. "Why don't you say, 'This is the best book I ever read,'" Libby suggests. "Teachers really like strong opinions like that...