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The 105th Congress's impeachment of Bill Clinton was an elitist backlash to pummel an Arkansas poor-boy for dethroning the patriarch of the ruling class.
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The 105th Congress's impeachment of Bill Clinton was an elitist backlash to pummel an Arkansas poor-boy for dethroning the patriarch of the ruling class.
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Usually James and I would meet up at Forshay to catch a bus downtown to use our “poor-boy” routine, better known as panhandling.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007
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Usually James and I would meet up at Forshay to catch a bus downtown to use our “poor-boy” routine, better known as panhandling.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007
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Usually James and I would meet up at Forshay to catch a bus downtown to use our “poor-boy” routine, better known as panhandling.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007
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Usually James and I would meet up at Forshay to catch a bus downtown to use our “poor-boy” routine, better known as panhandling.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007
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With that, Philip Roth is off, spinning an unsparing yet tender tale about a summer affair between poor-boy Neil, from Newark, N.J., and Brenda, a Radcliffe student who is staying with her upper-middle-class family in Short Hills.
Five Best 2007
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KEITH: It's just written from a poor-boy, hard-working man's point of view.
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KEITH: It's just written from a poor-boy, hard-working man's point of view.
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When I was nine, I appealed to my grandmother in a simple poor-boy letter: my grandmother, the one money bag we all in our particular ways went to, again and again, a source that seemed inexhaustible and at the ready.
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