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...Children learn a lot just by observing their parents' behavior, so mom and dad need to set a good example, too. Carl Tancaktiong, son of the founder of Philippine fast-food empire Jollibee, admits his childhood was pretty plush. "I don't remember not getting anything I wanted," he says. Yet Tancaktiong, 28, says he has grown up to be reasonably frugal, not because his parents lectured about money, but because they had down-to-earth spending habits themselves, eschewing luxury-brand clothing and expensive cars. Tancaktiong, a general manager of one of the company's Chinese chains, says...
...Senate internships or work on political campaigns. But a special invitation to work closely with Bush’s former chief strategist—that’s a whole different ball game. “It’s like winning the lottery,” said Carl Cannon, the Washington Bureau Chief for Reader’s Digest and a former fellow at the Institute of Politics. Rove, who resigned from his position in the Bush administration in August 2007, now works as an independent lecturer and political analyst. Caleb does research for Rove in his D.C. office...
...handful of presidential scholars I talked to agreed: announcing your presidential ambitions as an undergraduate is a bad idea. But wanting it? That was a different question. “What JFK once said is that wanting to be president is not a normal ambition,” Carl Cannon told me. Cannon is a journalist who has been covering the White House for the past 15 years, and he said he suspects that “almost all” the people who make it there—or even make it close—have been planning their...
...Cameron, Carl •extent to which Palin's ignorance stunned McCain's aides is revealed...
...just faked a loud orgasm at a New York City deli. A waitress turns to an older woman, who remarks, "I'll have what she's having." Thus Estelle Reiner, mother of When Harry Met Sally director Rob Reiner and wife of The Dick Van Dyke Show creatoi Carl, entered Aim history with one of cinema's most famous lines. Reiner, who spent her early life as a visual artist, became a cabaret singer at 60 and took lessons with legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg...