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Tami Cowger first heard about the exploits of the Spur Posse when she was . approached last December by a distraught ninth grader. "She had met this boy and really liked him, so she had sex with him. Then he brought his friends over and said she had to have sex with them too. She didn't want to, but she figured maybe this is what you have to do to be popular in high school." So the girl submitted, recalls Cowger, 17, a peer counselor at the high school in Lakewood, California. She sympathized with the younger girl's dilemma...
...town of 74,000 learned about the accusations on March 18 after seven girls filed complaints against members of the Spur Posse, named in honor of their basketball heroes, the San Antonio Spurs. Sheriff's deputies arrested eight boys and one young man on more than 17 felony counts of rape, unlawful intercourse and related charges. Last week county prosecutors said charges would be filed against only one of the boys for allegedly having sex with a 10-year-old girl. The other eight youths were set free. While four of them remained under investigation, many townspeople felt justice...
...boys' moms also reacted defensively, taking swipes at the girls' reputations. Dottie Belman told a reporter, "Those girls are trash." Diane Hurst, whose son was an original Spur, thought it was "sad for the girls that they have such low self-esteem that they would do this." She found no self- esteem problem in her son's behavior. "What can you do?" she said. "It's a testosterone thing...
...Reagan worked to spur expansion, lowering taxes and giving Uncle Sam less involvement in the lives of Americans...
...balance the budget just by cutting benefits to the wealthy, but you can get a lot further than they would like you to believe," says a White House official. Rather than a sharp rise in the overall tax rates, which would spur the wealthy to seek tax shelters abroad, a cut in the spending programs and tax breaks enjoyed by upper-income Americans would better serve economic efficiency and incentives, argues a Clinton aide. "Rich people don't care about higher top rates because their lawyers and accountants can always find ways around them," the official says. "What they care...