Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardly seems possible, but some rappers are getting on in years. Just as the Rolling Stones and The Who had to adjust to the arrival of younger generations of rock performers, so have certain rap groups had to face the problem of becoming superannuated. When Public Enemy came along in the mid- 1980s, rap was mostly party music, but the band helped change all that. Their songs were dense and aggressive and carried militant political messages. Public Enemy made rap serious, and sold millions of records in the process. But it has taken the band three years to release...
...same, and Georgia decided that youths from the ages of 14 through 17 who are charged with certain crimes will be tried as adults automatically. This being election time, candidates around the country are engaged in a kind of reverse auction to see who would send even younger felons to the adult system. Fourteen...
Even if the spectacle of politics coming to grips with pathology is not pretty, who can deny that when 11-year-olds like Robert ("Yummy") Sandifer kill or when a 14-year-old drives nails into the heels of a younger boy -- a recent episode from Somerset, Pennsylvania -- there is good reason to be unnerved? A breeding ground of poverty and broken families and drugs and guns and violence, real or just pictured, has brought forth a violent generation. "We need to throw out our entire juvenile-justice system," says Gil Garcetti, the District Attorney of Los Angeles County, whose...
...what a spring it will be. While last spring was the team's downfall, this spring promises to be its salvation. Meringoff should be back. Rueb should be in prime form. And the younger players should be even more skilled...
...thinclads were a pleasant surprise, however. Behind the leadership of a charismatic senior class, a number of younger athletes stepped up and and led the team on the courses. The Crimson ended up finishing fourth at Heps, its best result in years...