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...disagree include no small number of the people the ACLU claims to be representing: the tenants of public-housing projects. In the Robert Taylor Homes just south of Stateway Gardens, Ray Goodwin, 9, describes how one of his friends was gunned down on the monkey bars in a neighborhood playground "because he didn't want to be in a gang." Says Goodwin: "I want the sweeps. There be too many guns in our buildings." Around Easter they went off at an especially horrifying rate: after a truce between the Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples gangs apparently broke down, police recorded...
...Major League II. A ragtag rainbow coalition of teens will win a junior hockey championship in D2 The Mighty Ducks. Whether the game is big-time baseball (Rookie of the Year, Mr. Baseball) or college football (The Program, Rudy), basketball on the campus (Blue Chips) or on the playground (White Men Can't Jump, Above the Rim), boxing (Gladiator) or figure skating (The Cutting Edge), victory is never in doubt. As Pete Rose might say, you could...
...Poor playground skills...
...lost a tough game of four square on the playground it was the communists' fault. Did poorly in school? My teacher naturally was a Siberian exile, taking his frustrations out on an innocent American...
Postscript: a day later and 50 miles away, a mortar shell arced out of the surrounded Muslim enclave in Mostar and crashed into a playground in the Croat section of the city. The explosion killed three boys and a girl, all between...