Word: young
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...however, is that while Shepard's murderers were driven to kill by hate, the boy's rape and death was a sex crime. It was repulsive, unconscionable - and the predictable pastime of perverted criminals. It was the kind of depraved act that happens with even more regularity against young females, and, indeed, if the victim had been a 13-year-old girl, the story would probably never have gotten beyond Benton County, much less Arkansas. (There is, of course, a double standard there.) Matthew Shepard died not because of an all-too-common sex crime, but because of prejudice...
...there's still so much to be written. After all, Monica is only 25 years old and she likes to think that her best tennis is ahead of her. It's easy to forget that she's still so young when you realize the depth of her experience. She grew up in front of the world as a superstar-- a multimillionaire...
Instead, she finds herself trying to keep up with a pumped-up, overpowering new generation of young superstars. I ask her whether she believed that those who suffer through adversity will eventually triumph in the end. For the first time, she pauses before she answers...
...nineteen year old. Her father, Karolj Seles, was the anti-tennis father, the exception amidst a crowd of money-hungry entrepreneurs pushing their sons and daughters for that extra endorsement, that last exhibition. He was a gentle man, a cartoonist who drew caricatures on tennis balls to get young Monica to focus on the ball when she hit her punishing groundstrokes...
...Plymouth to the long list of American car brands no longer gracing auto showrooms. DaimlerChrysler executives announced Wednesday that the company is discontinuing the brand after 72 years. Earlier this decade, when Plymouth's sales begun to slump, Chrysler reinvented the brand as an economy line of cars for young families, branding it with the slogan "One Clever Idea After Another." At the same time, Plymouth's mid-sized Breeze sedan and the Voyager minivan received enthusiastic reviews from automotive magazines. But last year, after Chrysler merged with German auto giant Daimler-Benz, the company began to phase out Plymouth...