Word: dad
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...There was definitely big-time pressure from my dad and uncle,” John Henry says. “My dad was like the biggest Harvard fan in the world. Our dad and uncle were just constantly chirping in our ears about Harvard and how it was the best school on Earth...
...Corners, N.Y., in 1995] was because my daughters were about to reach puberty and I wanted to get them out of L.A. I had a great 20 to 25 years, and I figured I would come back later, which is happening now. But it was time to be a dad and do it the right...
...publish a so-called humor magazine.) And, yes, Rich is the younger son of vaunted New York Times columnist Frank Rich ’71. That could generate some publicity for the book, but Gawker and others will make better sense of lines like, “Fuck you, Dad. I’ve got bigger plans,” and the book’s underlying theme of familial tension.One short, the opener, skewers Abraham during a painfully awkward walk down the mountain after that Biblical tale of paternal betrayal, the Binding of Isaac. But however brilliant...
...show produced by the government in the hope that men will learn to effortlessly relieve their wives at the wok. In 2006, Japanese men were invited to benchmark themselves against the central character of Love Mum More Than Anyone-a TV drama series about an exemplary stay-at-home dad. Japan's print media has also decided that men need to be educated in a style of fathering hitherto unknown. Not long ago, the idea of a Japanese magazine about fathering might have been dismissed with a derisory snort. But last year saw the launch of two upscale glossies...
Iraq comes first, as always. From the start, it has been obvious that personal motives have skewed the President's judgment about the war. Saddam tried to kill his dad; his dad didn't try hard enough to kill Saddam. There was payback to be had. But never was Bush's adolescent petulance more obvious than in his decision to ignore the Baker-Hamilton report and move in the exact opposite direction: adding troops and employing counterinsurgency tactics inappropriate to the situation on the ground. "There was no way he was going to accept [its findings] once the press began...