Word: repeaters
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...audience falls silent. He captures the students expertly, first soothing them with his soft, sensuous voice, then whipping them into a frenzy with a quickening cadence. "We can be as good in academics as in athletics," he shouts, "but we've got to believe we are somebody. Repeat after me, "I am somebody.' " Hundreds of teenagers rise to their feet, chanting, "I may be poor, but I am somebody. I may be on welfare, but I am somebody. Nobody can save us, for us, but us." He calls the captain of the basketball team to the stage...
Life is tough, you repeat to yourself, but the memories of your own rather pleasant weekend, filled with morning sails and evening gins-and-tonic, gives you the strength to fight off any and all twinges of upper-middle-class guilt. Back to the newspaper, which offers little solace: the holiday weekend; it reports, featured a grand total of 15 murders, not including the 150 or so wounded in the explosion of an ice-cream truck in Manhattan. And the summer hasn't even begun...
...enters an apartment squalid beyond words and comes to rest on an infant cooing over its bottle. No one states the obvious: that child will never have a chance. The faces of parents appear, studies in anger and bewilderment. Visibly, they are passing on pain to children doomed to repeat the same cycle...
...death of the way the press treats Billy Carter [June 5]. Who cares what kind of wedding Billy Carter throws for his daughter? Why shouldn't he be able to handle it any way that will make his daughter and his family happy? Billy Carter is not, I repeat, not the President; he is Billy Carter. There are lots of Billy Carters in the U.S. So why do you continue to put him down for living his life the way he chooses...
...five-horse field got away cleanly, Cauthen steering Affirmed into an immediate, if slow-paced lead. Alydar's trainer, John Veitch, had feared a repeat of Affirmed's easy gallop on the lead at the Preakness and planned to up the pace if Cauthen tried to lope off with the race once more. Said Veitch: "Alydar will be Affirmed's shadow...