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When my sister called with the news of my mother’s death this October, my siblings and I rushed to our home in Texas to be with my father and grandparents, shocked by our sudden loss. While it was extremely difficult to accept, my family took some comfort in knowing that she passed away peacefully, no longer suffering from all the sicknesses that she had lived with for so many years. And my mother’s death had a profound effect on my family that I hadn’t expected. As we exchanged hugs, shed tears...
...recommends starting out simply—a nice pair of black pants or jeans. Arnavon agrees. “I love jeans—I could buy a million,” she says. She favors dark rinse Juicy Couture jeans from Jasmine Sola ($132), while Lopez likes the comfort of Abercrombie’s super low-rise flares...
...exiled for a time in Inner Mongolia and forced to perform menial labor), his films invariably focus on the prevalent socio-economic problems of the day, with a sympathetic bias towards the experience of minority nationalities. On the other hand, having grown up amid rapid economic progress and material comfort in burgeoning regional cities, the Sixth Generation filmmakers concern themselves mainly with the onslaught of information technology and the social dislocation of the nouveau riche. Economic growth has also produced the financial support necessary for the stunning stylistic effects each director now deploys with ease...
...long, deeply Anglophilic and, let's be frank, overwritten epic. But the Rings had struck a chord. The burgeoning environmental movement saw in his wasteland of Mordor a strip-mined industrial dystopia. On a deeper level, a country drowning in the moral quicksand of Vietnam and Watergate found comfort in the moral clarity of Tolkien's epic story of a just, clear war. Good and evil are fixed stars in the skies of Middle-earth even as they're starting to look wobbly in ours...
...work, Potter's casual demeanor can be deceiving. Says Noel Tichy, a University of Michigan business professor who profiled Potter (along with CEOs like GE's Jack Welch) for his book, The Cycle of Leadership: "I've watched her with her people, and she puts them out of their comfort zone. She's not an easy person to work for if you don't want to be pushed." Yet "she never misses an opportunity to give the credit to someone else," says Claudia Estrin, a colleague of Potter's since...