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...money and a job were so important, I wouldn’t have worked for free for the past seven months. There was no guarantee that Bush was going to win. My dad was having a heart attack a couple weeks ago. He thought I would be unemployed,” she recalled...
It’s a trend not limited to upscale coffee bars; bargain clothing shops are hard to come by in the neighborhood. Harvard Square is better-suited to high-end shoppers, and the prices can be daunting for undergrads not sending bills home to Mom and Dad...
...can’t help but think about my family aging along with me. My seventy-year-old dad stands less vertically every time I see him and passes his days watching Fox News, eating peanuts and waiting for his retirement checks. My mother’s beauty regimen of Oil of Olay and sunscreen no longer fends off the fine lines and wrinkles. “When I come from Vietnam I young babe,” she said on her birthday last month with a hint of melodrama. “Today I old woman...
...been one of the game's dominant pitchers, the Yankees seemed to have his number. After another loss to them in late September, he blurted out, "I just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddy." Ever sensitive New York fans quickly added, "Who's your Dad-dy?" to the 1918 taunt. But by the thick of this year's playoffs, Pedro too had adapted the team's "Why not us?" attitude. He pitched a gem in the World Series...
...point, that is--he'll bend the truth for the sake of a good line. "I had a groupie at the end deliver what I thought was a quite cogent remark," he recalls. "'Every girl wants to f___ a star. Every girl.' My daughter said, 'Nobody talks like that, Dad.'" This time his grin is a little lupine. "But I left...