Word: dad
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...opposition. He controls public housing, public schools and the city council. He is cozy with Big Business, is a master at the ward politics of fixing streetlights, and he speaks with a blunt, blue-collar brio that Chicagoans find endearing. "There's never been a [U.S.] mayor, including his dad, who had this much power," says Paul Green, professor of policy studies at Chicago's Roosevelt University. And he's used it to steer the Windy City into a period of impressive stability, with declining unemployment and splashy growth...
...having their debuts: NBC's American Almanac premieres this week and CBS's West 57th next week.[*] Both magazine shows last an hour, but they have little else in common. In style and approach, the programs are as different as, say, a hip teenager and his slightly stolid dad...
...sitting beside his father Charles in the Chicago White Sox dugout at Yankee Stadium, just as so many years earlier, like so many sons and fathers, they must have sat together in ball parks. Reversing and updating the dialogue, Seaver said, "Look over at the batting cage, dad. There's Yogi Berra...
...living room, and my aunt Ada and my brothers and sisters. We would be eating popcorn. As it got later, I remember lying on the floor so my mother wouldn't see me. Uncle Lew would stop for a while, and then someone else would spell him, my dad or my aunt Ruth. And then Uncle Lew would come back. The period he talked about so well was about ten years on either side of the turn of the century. A beautiful time, I still think so. And I just wanted him to tell more and more and more...
...Declaration of Independence that my wife Lyn and I subsequently bought. It was spring 2001, and I had read that the document was going to be auctioned off by Sotheby's on the Internet. One of our little girls went to school with a little girl whose dad ran Sotheby's in Los Angeles. He told me that the document, which happened to be sitting in his office, was one of 25 that existed in the world at the time. It was one of those that had been printed the night of July 4, 1776. One of those that...