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Q: The funds for these scholarships come from concerned neighbors like you who contribute in the YMCA's Invest in Youth Program. Please consider a gift of $25 or more to help insure that a Hamilton County child will be in safe, age appropriate activities before and after school.

A: The funds for these scholarships come from concerned neighbors like you who contribute in the YMCA's Invest in Youth Program. Please consider a gift to help insure that a Hamilton County child after school.
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Q: Alas for perfectly lovely words that acquire pejorative meanings over the years! Earlier in this century, pansy became a derogatory epithet to describe an effete male, thereby cheapening forever lines like Shelley's noble image in Adonais ( verse XXXIII ): His head was bound with pansies over-blown,

A: Alas for perfectly lovely words that acquire pejorative meanings! Earlier this century, pansy became an epithet for an effete man, cheapening noble lines like Shelley's in Adonais: His head was bound with pansies over-blown,
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Q: There was death in D.C. throughout the ' 80 s and into the ' 90 s, and there was death everywhere, " said Starke, who was reared in New Rochelle N.Y., and played at Columbia. " It wasn't like New York's or Boston's organized crime.

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The D.C. area had deaths throughout the 80s and 90s just like everywhere else according to Starke, who is from New Rochelle, NY; but not as bad as New York or Boston though.
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