Word: ymca
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...Yankees’ song of choice is “YMCA,” but in the bleachers the song is distorted to a rhyming, less-PC version, with a chorus of “Why are you gay?” Moreover, the fans direct their rendition of the song at whichever lone opposing fan they can find. This meant that I had about twenty drunk New Yorkers pointing at me and singing the song. I suggested that they target their melody at Derek Jeter, but for some reason I was ignored...
Wednesday, March 9. Deborah Santana reads from Space Between the Stars. 6:30 p.m., Cambridge YMCA. Free admission...
Elmo dolls always balance on the fine line between genius and insanity. This year he spells his name with big-arm gestures to a variant of the Village People's classic YMCA. fisher-price.com...
Opened in 1996, Spring Creek is the largest WWASPS affiliate, with about 600 teenagers in residence. It is owned and operated by twin brothers Cameron and Chaffin Pullan, 33. Neither Pullan is a college graduate or has any formal training in child development. Cameron worked as a YMCA day-care administrator, and Chaffin served as a residential manager for a WWASPS program in Utah before starting the school in Thompson Falls, Mont. But the brothers pride themselves on their self-taught proficiency in rehabilitating kids. "We help build confidence," says Chaffin, "through character building...
...friend who thought Houck needed to make some changes took him to a meeting at the local YMCA of the Oxford Group, an evangelical society founded in Britain by Frank Buchman that was prominent in the 1920s. Houck was immediately drawn to the group's teachings, which were based on four principles: honesty, purity, unselfishness and love. He was especially moved by the concept of "two-way" prayer: the group taught that if you spent quiet time every day listening to God, he would provide guidance. You were also encouraged to make restitution, to "put right what's wrong...