Word: dad
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...lists and annotated with scribbled margin notes, asteriks and arrows. It's designed for use in the kitchen, but the data is downloadable to everyone?s cell phone as well as their work, school and home computers. The idea is to keep the entries legible while keeping mom, dad and all the kids on the same page, literally and electronically, all the time. Each person can add, switch or delete entries and the changes are automatically incorporated onto all of the calendars on the networked devices...
...place in Mexico City, at the turn of the last millennium. Carla, an American in her early twenties, has the wanderlust of many people her age. She goes to Mexico because she is "sick of everybody" and because she wants to find the roots of her resented "disappearing Mexican dad." The reasons for her arrival and prolonged year-long stay become a central theme in the book, as Carla's ideas of Mexico, loaded with all kinds of cultural assumptions, clash with the reality. Overstaying her travel visa she becomes a reverse illegal immigrant, working under the table...
...also during my senior spring that my closest friend’s dad was dying of cancer. My friend and I had been closer when we were younger, yet her dad’s illness affected me more than I expected...
...found Brooke and our friend Cory after Mass, and I went to them. I did not know for certain if our friend’s dad had died, and I struggled to ask them. They nodded in affirmation, and we stared at each other. What more could be said...
...things I hope my successor will care about,” Summers said. Summers suggested that the set of courses that faculty members individually want to teach is not necessarily the best selection of courses for students—a remark that drew impromptu applause. Asked by one dad whether faculty tenure is an impediment to promoting excellence in undergraduate education, Summers expressed concern with the increasing age of Harvard’s professoriat due to tenure and federal laws that ban mandatory retirement. But Summers said he sees faculty tenure as important not only because it protects academic freedom...