Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The hardscrabble town of Marianna, Ark. (pop. 6,200), near the Mississippi River, has no movie theater but plenty of boarded-up storefronts. Summer work for teenagers can mean wrenching labor in the rice and soybean fields. Young black men know that if they want something better, they have to...
Gorey is now a senior correspondent for TIME in Washington, but the tennis matches at Hickory Hill are less frequent. (Ethel, he reports, still plays furiously.) Gorey's fascination with the clan is undiminished. "The Kennedys were youthful, attractive and appealing," he says. "There is something riveting about a family...
"You have to give kids something that inspires them," says Chicago Alderman Edwin Eisendrath, a former teacher. Imposing tighter standards without remedial help can backfire. Says Boyer: "It's like raising the hurdles and not giving students extra coaching when they were already tripping."
Dolores Bennett calls them her children. There are more than a thousand of them by now, young people who grew up on Detroit's mean streets but flourished inside her tidy yellow frame house on King Street. It was in 1964 that Bennett, now 55, began her work. "I started...
When Eliahu Ben-Elissar, a member of the conservative Likud Party, charged that Palestinians in the occupied territories are "sending out children and women to the streets to cope with Israeli soldiers," cries of outrage erupted in the audience. When he claimed further that the Jewish concern for women and...