The book was (and surely still is) required reading at my all-boys Catholic high school.
Get him to an all-boys' school where all the boys want to do well.
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My last visit of the week is to the Excellence Charter School in Brooklyn, an all-boys school for five- to 11-year-olds that will eventually teach right up to age 14.
After a few necessary detours, I ended up coaching debate to at-risk black and Hispanic students at the Eagle Academy for Young Men, a pioneering all-boys secondary school in the heart of the South Bronx, a few blocks from Yankee Stadium.
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There was no mention of Holley Mangold, 2012 U.S. Olympic team weight lifter and sister of NFL Center Nick Mangold of the New York Jets, who played high school football on an all-boys team for Archbishop Alter High School, a Catholic school overseen by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
Roberts was born in Buffalo on January 27, 1955, and raised in northern Indiana, where his father was an executive with a steel company and his mother a homemaker. (He has three sisters.) Jackie, as he was known, was educated at Catholic schools, and graduated from La Lumiere, at the time an all-boys parochial boarding school in LaPorte.
Unlike The Doors and the Rolling Stones, who had bad-boy images, Three Dog Night was perceived as All-American boys.
"It's an unbelievable achievement - all the boys have dug in so much it's untrue and our team spirit has been unbelievable - and that's what's come through in the end, " said the delighted keeper.
It is also easier to abandon gender stereotypes: girls in all-girl schools are more likely to study maths and science, boys in all-boy schools become more involved in theatre.
The holding company should have been sunk, and the losers--all very big boys, actually the bullies of the bourses--should have taken their lickings.
Their driveways are stacked with fishing boats, jet-skis and monster trucks - all the boys' toys.
Investors, take heart: one of the all-time Bad Boys of Wall Street, mean and greedy Gordon Gekko, has turned over a new leaf.
The phenomenon of precocious puberty - when children develop the first signs of puberty earlier than the normal ages of ten for girls and eleven-and-a-half for boys - is increasing all over the western world.
There have been General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQs) with the same name, though the full awards were passed by only about 2, 000 students a year around the UK - almost all boys.
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Another hot-selling filter would be one that mutes out all the ruinous voice-over in Wonder Boys.
As of Sunday night, all three 16-year-old boys were still being held in the Santa Clara County detention center.
He was a high school All-American as a freshman and attended the US Under-14 boys' national team camp in 2001.
Romance at the captain's table on some swank ocean liner, champagne socialites dancing in speakeasies -- the boys knew all that stuff from picture shows.
That starts by treating this moment not as some global airing of our dirty laundry but rather a national awakening to the reality that all of us -- girls and boys, women and men -- must do our part in cleaning it.
From 2007 to 2013, parent-reported autism prevalence increased significantly in all age groups in the 6-17 range and increased for boys from 1.8% to 3.23%.
If the executives at WebTV aren't careful, they may wind up spending all their time in La-Z-Boys too.
This includes deepening ties of trade, commerce, strengthening institutions, development, education and opportunities for all Afghans -- men and women, boys and girls.
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In her 30-plus years as Dear Abby, Phillips answered inquiries from all types: teenage girls, teenage boys, young women, exasperated mothers-in-law, elderly widows and widowers.
All 20 children who died in the shootings - eight boys and 12 girls - were aged between six and seven, according to an official list of the dead.
All the boys on the North Beach playground had names -- that meant you were in, you belonged there.
Patriarch Devshi Ramji Jatania moved his clan to London in 1970 for the boys' schooling, and all 16 of them--counting the parents, wives and kids--still call it home.
Slim in a pair of jeans and a fitted hip-length tunic with a sweatshirt on top, she says her neighbors often gossip about her and tell her parents that she "talks to boys all the time and runs around town"--all part of her job.
All the boys coming in have done brilliantly, not least stand-in wicket-keeper Andrew Hodd - no matter where I go I have to fight for my place I guess!
Deft and purring, she seems to pounce in from another land entirely, a Hitchcockian pleasure ground of light fingers and matching repartee, and her expression is that of a grown woman who surveys all these sombre boys, plus their whizzing toys, and sees only Bat-crap.
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