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...that we were both fathers and husbands. So, like many people, I first thought about his wife Terri, daughter Bindi and son Bob. Irwin was foremost a family man. His working life-or that part of it open to public view-was enmeshed with kin, three generations of the clan riding in the Team Irwin prime mover, sharing the same passions and one another's company. But the genuine shock and sadness of parents and kids as the news spread in my children's playground after school last Monday told me that Irwin had found a rare place...
...always respected the family. Even though he is the fifth of seven children and the third and youngest male (Ramón, 81 and an agricultural adviser, is older than Fidel), Raúl has always been the clan's peacekeeper. When Fidel in the 1960s expropriated Cuba's ranches, including his family compound in Birán, where his mother Lina Ruz still lived, she met the revolutionaries at the door with a Winchester rifle, which she knew how to use. It was Raúl who convinced her of the merits of the reform. Lina continued to live on the compound after the state...
...Prominent Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson recently spoke about how both individuals and groups have "layers of identity." In his own "biography of identity," he lists the variety of languages spoken by his indigenous forebears, as well as clan, religious and geographic affiliations. He told a Brisbane audience last month that Australians need to take into account those parts of our identity that are shared and those which are distinct. Pearson argued that without a better understanding of identity, "multiculturalism" - because it is based only on "culture" - won't endure as a unifying concept. What could emerge, as Nobel economics laureate...
Named after McCain's father-in-law, James Hensley, Jimmy is the lively, happy-go-lucky member of the clan, friends say. During the 2000 campaign, a Boston Globe reporter spotted Jimmy, then 11, chasing his older brother Jack around the house, calling him a "pork-barrel spender"--a deep cut in the McCain home. During that year, when McCain was on the road in New Hampshire, the candidate proudly read aloud from a school report on General George S. Patton Jr. by Jimmy that he had faxed to his father: "The Tanks Will Roll...
Whatever Jimmy's enrollment says about him, his father or the country, candidate McCain is letting it speak for itself, for the most part. Often the clan gathers for a popular July 4 barbecue at McCain's cabin in Arizona. But this year McCain canceled the picnic, and the Senator, his wife Cindy and Jimmy went to the Quinault Indian reservation in Washington State. "We went fishing and hiking and enjoyed the rain forest there as well as the salmon fishing, although we didn't catch any salmon," he says. "Cindy and I were able to spend a weekend with...