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"When you hear that a poor boy caught the world record, it gives you hope, " he says in perfect English.
FORBES: Forbidden Bass
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Kes, on the other hand, dealt with the touching story of a poor boy who finds comfort in training a bird of prey.
BBC: Director Loach slams TV news
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The ploy meshes with the cynical story that follows, of a poor boy with a Machiavellian streak who takes to heart an apprenticeship as a croupier in decadent Monte Carlo and becomes a first-class cardsharp.
NEWYORKER: The Story of a Cheat
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Not bad for a poor farm boy from Idaho.
ECONOMIST: Edwin P. Wilson
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An amalgam of "Oliver Twist, " "The Three Musketeers" and Bollywood extravagance, it's the saga -- mainly in English, plus some subtitled Hindi -- of a wretchedly poor Muslim boy, played as a young man by Dev Patel, who pulls himself up by his brains instead of his bootstraps, and gets a shot at becoming a millionaire on a wondrously garish Indian TV quiz show.
WSJ: Telluride Thrills
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It's po'boy - a derivation of "poor boy".
BBC: 7 questions on sandwiches
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Maybe Vegas ain't a place for a poor old country boy from New England.
CNN: Happy to be leaving Las Vegas
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Mr Villar's image is built on his description of himself as a boy from a poor family who worked hard and became a rich businessman.
ECONOMIST: Anyone but Arroyo
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Affleck, in his best performance yet, plays a local boy who has fought his way out of a poor Irish neighborhood and has been living well beyond his hundred-and-sixty-thousand-dollar salary.
NEWYORKER: The Company Men
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The story is simple: a teen-age boy, Xu Yun, leaves his poor rural village in an obsessive quest to find his prodigal and newly prosperous father in the big city of Zigong.
NEWYORKER: Taking Father Home
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In childhood he was told by his father, Manuel, the story of the 20-year-old, dirt-poor farm boy named George Washington Perry who caught a 22.3 pound bass in Georgia in 1932, establishing the current record.
FORBES: Forbidden Bass
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For example, in Pakistan a 10 to 12 year old boy from a wealthy urban family is three times more likely to attend school than a girl from a poor family living in a rural area.
UNESCO: EDUCATION