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...remaining parent. Some children struggle academically when the parent who helped them with their homework is deployed. And for the remaining spouse, it becomes harder to keep up with the usual routines, like shuttling the kids to soccer practices, scout meetings and ballet classes. And then there is the constant fear that the deployed parent may be injured or killed...
...Texas heartland, where many consider truth a constant and not a variable, not everyone agreed. In a question-answer session that followed, a self-described "Oprah fan" rose to attack Frey, claiming he had lied, embellished and fooled those who believed in the truth of his book - including Oprah, who told her audience she had been duped and betrayed. (A judge recently ordered Random House, Talese's publishing house, to refund $2.35 million to readers.) The question prompted Talese to take the microphone. She pointedly turned toward the C-SPAN crew that was filming the event and launched into...
...thinkers chose to sit for Feguson's cameras, but one of them, a slippery, sneering and supercilious man named Walter Slocombe, a senior advisor to CPA, did. He was a reluctant warrior, whose visits to Iraq were few and brief. But he says he was in constant contact with Col. Paul Hughes, who was struggling to keep the Iraqi army intact. Hughes is a polite, low-keyed sort of guy, but when asked about his contacts with Slocombe he finally cracks. Mostly what they discussed, he says, was what kind of car he would have in Baghdad...
...Fortunately, one sacred summer pastime remained constant throughout our formative years, which we would defend at all costs: attending outdoor summer concerts. A rite of passage that was inevitably the highlight of our vacation, the outdoor concert was an activity that ushered my friends and me simultaneously into summer and post-adolescence...
...Hong Kong also operates under the constant fear that it could one day be bypassed by China in its dealings with the global pearl market. Man Sang, for one, is hedging its bets. The jewelry company has invested more than $200 million in the 1.2 million square miles China Pearls and Jewellery City in Zhuji, a Yangtze River town that provides 80% of China's freshwater pearl trade volume. When it is completed this fall, the enormous marketplace is expected to house more than 5,000 pearl shops, and Man Sang aims for it to become "the world's pearl...