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...Chile, there is no such agreement what happened in the past, let alone what it means for the future. My host grandfather denies that Pinochet’s regime tortured anyone unjustly; his daughter likes to tell the tale of how her ex-husband was detained and tortured three days before their wedding. A trial of the former dictator, which might have forced the two sides to talk to one another to find common ground, never happened, and now, never will. The emphasis is on moving forward...
Marina is the glamorous and gorgeous daughter of the eminent liberal journalist Murray Thwaite, whose overweening intelligence and charisma keep her in the thrall of an Electra-like adulation of her father. Since her graduation from Brown, she has been wallowing in an abortive effort to finish her book on “how complex and profound cultural truths—our mores entire—could be derived from” the evolution of children’s fashion. The project—like its author—is silly and self-indulgent, a perfect example of the frivolity...
...medical school. Although residencies and jams don’t go together, his friends think he’ll always be a breaker. “He’ll be dancing in front of the wall of mirrors in his house, teaching his daughter 8-counts,” assures Ogunnaike. “Either that or pop-locking while he’s performing surgery...
...Lizzie was born in rural Tennessee, the daughter of sharecroppers, in the summer of 1890. That means she was as old as Idaho and Wyoming; they became states that same summer. Benjamin Harrison was President. It was an auspicious year for births: she arrived in the company of Agatha Christie, and Groucho Marx, and Dwight Eisenhower. Pork chops cost 10 cents a pound, bread was a nickel a loaf, milk 6 cents a quart. The next year, basketball was invented...
...daughter of a “shahid”—a martyr—sharply criticized extremist jihads last night, asking people to speak out in support of Israel in order to achieve peace in the troubled Middle East...