• In the 70s, I may have occasionally put gel upon my hair, smeared mascara upon my eyes and arranged a sneer upon my lip, but I was really a middle-class grammar school boy masquerading as part-time punk.

    BBC: Should we despair at the kids of today?

  • Max was a middle-class boy who lived in another type of neighborhood, one perched between affluence and despair.

    NEWYORKER: Ghosts

  • Audun is a working-class Oslo boy, and not without his troubles.

    NEWYORKER: Late and Soon

  • Many Democrats are convinced that he is a shoo-in for the vice-presidency: a working-class southern boy made good who balances Mr Kerry's patrician gravitas with a generous measure of charm.

    ECONOMIST: A charismatic candidate in search of an audience

  • Ever since his student years at Manchester University in the 1950s (a working-class boy, he paid his way through school with a variety of jobs, including a stint as a nightclub bouncer), Foster loved utilitarian buildings: barns, factories, windmills.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • Telling family stories, the Millers laughed about old snapshots showing the future private first class as a boy -- standing at parade rest while his father spoke to him.

    CNN: Army dad, son take on Taliban; mom worries

  • The young boy took consistently first-class photographs from the age of 12 and, as his journal describing his trips to the Bois de Boulogne reveals, he was by then already a perfectionist.

    ECONOMIST: Jacques Henri Lartigue

  • The apartment house where the boy's body was found is in a middle-class neighborhood with a hodgepodge of old and new architecture.

    WSJ: Arrest made in death of NY boy, 4, found alone

  • Cardiff boss Dave Jones was clearly the happier, as new boy Bellamy inspired the Welsh club to a comprehensive victory with a master-class that will leave some Premier League managers wishing the Wales captain had joined them.

    BBC: Cardiff 4-0 Doncaster

  • The boy was named by his adoptive parents, Paul and Clara Jobs, a working-class couple from Santa Clara County, near San Francisco.

    CNN: Why Apple's Steve Jobs is so fascinating

  • Police say the boy told the leaders he had forwarded the message without reading it to others in the middle-class compound for employees of the local gas company where he lived.

    BBC: Christian boy in Pakistan arrested for blasphemy

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