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...expatriates, bankers and journalists - as well as other domestic workers - looked on, Thelma and her fellow thespians grappled with the burden of their sacrifice. In previous lives, many were schoolteachers, beauty contestants and union organizers, but now they toil around the clock, rushing after spoiled kids and reckoning with deadbeat husbands. An estimated one-third of the Filipinas working as domestic servants in Hong Kong are university graduates. "What good has that done me?" demands one cast member. "I am just scrubbing toilets...
...right. Missing Kissinger doesn't point readers left or right. Rather, the human fallout of the Knesset's political posturing is an incessant background hum. In a way that sneaks up on them, several of the book's characters have their lives eaten away by their army experiences. The deadbeat heroes elicit a dead-pan wit. "He had no future," Keret writes of one of his leading men. "He didn't even have a near present...
...that most people running from the law don't eat out, they order pizza.' CYNTHIA BROWN, of the Butler County Child Enforcement Agency in Ohio, on her inspiration for placing wanted posters of child-support scofflaws on local pizza boxes in an effort to turn up the heat on deadbeat dads and moms
CYNTHIA BROWN, of the Butler County Child Enforcement Agency in Ohio, on her inspiration for placing wanted posters of child-support scofflaws on local pizza boxes in an effort to turn up the heat on deadbeat dads and moms...
...dominate the airwaves during the game. Certainly, both Dungy and Smith deserve recognition, not simply for being black, but for having the character to serve as role models for the black community and fathers and coaches everywhere. Overzealous coaches show us who not to be: conformists to negative stereotypes, deadbeat dads, and angry, cold Bill Belichick-esque football dictators...