Word: childrenã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...much I looked like him. One thing I thought about doing would be to take over his life like in Being John Malkovich....just as an amusing exercise. It is also a bit scary, though, because he has a kid, and I don’t have any children??that I know of, anyway...
...father makes a fitting observation. “People who’ve been parceled out and knocked around,” he says, “are always returning to the past, retracing their steps.” At 78, with six novels and 21 children??s works behind her, Fox is finally lending credence to the statement, offering an elegant, if fragmentary, portrait of her first 20 years...
...Yaddo, the writers’ colony in upstate New York. Franzen pushed for its reissue, calling it “obviously superior to any novel by Fox’s contemporaries John Updike, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow.” Professionally, she is a Newbery Award-winning children??s author who is finally receiving accolades for her more mature works. Personally, she has been happily married for 40 years and triumphantly reunited with the daughter she reluctantly gave up for adoption so long ago. After reading Borrowed Finery, it would be hard to begrudge Paula...
...conferences and the meetings with the President; he was there in the trenches. Rather than put himself on a Secretary of the Treasury pedestal, he was willing to meet constantly with not only members of Congress, but also their staff and the representatives of scores of religious and international children??s groups. Once in the late fall of 1999, when virtually everyone thought that funding for debt relief had no chance, Larry went up to the Hill himself and lobbied vigorously into the wee hours of the morning to turn a devastating loss into a partial win that...
...America’s failure to adequately defend Bosnia in the early 1990s demonstrates our religious bias against Muslims, while the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia to protect the Kosovar Muslims is a display of U.S. attempts at hegemony. The U.S.-imposed sanctions on Iraq are responsible for 1.5 million children??s deaths, while Saddam Hussein is absolved of responsibility for delaying the implementation of the oil-for-food program for more than two years and for accumulating $6 billion in personal wealth while his people starved. Some, such as Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Chair...