Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most assassins seem to have been the equivalent of "model prisoners" in their own families, diminished by a powerful parent, unable to express themselves or let out their normal aggressive and sexual feelings. When the demons inside finally burst through, an ordinary victim would not do. The target had to be as far above the average citizen as the parent was above the assassin...
...acre wedge of Chicago just south of the trendy Old Town neighborhood. Even when the project opened 39 years ago, the neighborhood was a high-crime pocket. Today the median income is $4,575 a year, and almost eight out of ten famines are headed by one parent. The TV comedy Good Times-about a loving, industrious black mother and children-is centered on a family at Cabrini-Green, but the project may be more like the gang-war surrealism of The Warriors. The rat-infested buildings are ravaged: graffiti-scarred stairwells, bashed-in doors, broken elevators, roaches everywhere...
Massachusetts. The state supreme court last month struck down the legislature's ban on abortion funding. But pro-lifers won a round by pushing through a law that requires unmarried minors to have either the consent of a parent or a Superior Court judge before getting an abortion-a restriction that goes one step beyond Utah's parental notification statute. A federal court of appeals upheld the consent law, but struck down provisions requiring pregnant woman to read, in advance of the operation, a detailed description of her unborn fetus...
...dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens asked, "Would a rational parent making rules for the conduct of twin children of opposite sex simultaneously forbid the son and authorize the daughter to engage in conduct that is especially harmful to the daughter...
...pair of shoes," he says. "They weren't even my size." Associate Editor John Leo, who wrote the assessment of crime's impact on American society, is a two-time burglary victim. Says he: "All U.S. cities are in danger of becoming unlivable. For a parent, the fear for your children is never very far from your mind...