The unrest broke out after three Albanian boys drowned near the town of Mitrovica last on Tuesday.
The Spanish-speaking caseworker later explained that while one of the boys had fled his town because he had been constantly attacked with rocks and was sexually abused because he was gay, most had left to escape deadly gang violence in their towns.
Still later the same sorts of tensions would appear in the public images of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, who were revered not only for their achievements in technology, but also for having managed to turn the trick of becoming rich and famous while retaining the homespun virtues of small town boys.
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Less than a year later a serious case review found the attacks in the nearby town of Edlington in which two young boys were tortured by two brothers, aged 11 and 12, had been "preventable".
The boys attended high school in the town of Edison, four miles south of Blanchard.
He was the second of three boys born to an ethnic Korean father who ran a pachinko parlor in a small town on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu.
Three Albanian boys then drowned in the River Ibar, which divides the northern town of Mitrovica into an Albanian south and a Serbian north.
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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.
In the 1950s, this was the go-to destination for Rat Pack party boys like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr, who turned the town into their own private playground of jazz, cigars and card games.
"There are a lot of companies in the business of grabbing as many people as possible with low flat-rate pricing, so when the big boys come to town they can sell their subscriber base and move to the Caribbean, " says Rapp.
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