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...unpaid internships militate against middle-class parents insisting that their kids work. Still, nothing excuses your daughter's irresponsibility in not telling you sooner. Life's transition points--such as becoming self-supporting--are emotionally tricky for both parent and child. Although your daughter may legally be an adult, she has not yet developed the traits that Linda Perlman Gordon, co-author of Mom, Can I Move Back In with You?, has identified as the markers of adulthood in today's culture of extended adolescence. Among them, financial responsibility and understanding the impact of one's actions on others (including...
...Hallett, delivering most of the spoken script, embodied a reflective Joplin as a doting and guilt-racked daughter. Summer audiences and critics lauded this play’s summer run, perhaps recognizing their own selves in the singer’s conflicting identity as a daughter and a worldly adult...
...don’t think that’s anything you’re striving for. I mean part of what a cult audience reacts to is the lack of artifice about something. The thing I’d like to see is more adult, grown up people enjoying what we’re doing. [Our work] is accessible but for some reason is not reaching that audience...
...fatigues and a brown fedora, Perkins was thin, with leathery brown skin sagging below his eyes. Pedaling towards them on a bicycle, he explained that he had been 16 when organizers led by Martin Luther King, Jr., pulled him and other children from school. The children were to replace adult demonstrators, many of whom had been shut up in Birmingham jails. “They told us older boys to be tough, how to get the police angry,” he said. “Then we walked in the front to protect the younger ones...
...Like it or not, "Al Jazeera is the most influential Arab voice outside of mosques. It is the largest shaper of ideology," says Rushing. And if American voices are not heard in that venue, then they have no chance of having virtually any influence. "I've dedicated my adult life to the health and security of the United States and to representing the best of American ideas. I will maintain my credibility by continuing to do that." Rushing may discover that being a Marine might have been the easy part...