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...other day my two-year-old daughter looked up from her Cheerios, pointed at her elder sister and announced, "You are an asko." I spluttered, "Clementine! That is a bad word, and you should not say it!" She said sweetly, "O.K." Then she muttered under her breath, "Mommy is an even more asko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Baby Swears | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...movies, in online chat rooms and on prime-time TV--perhaps I should not have been so surprised. Last year an ABC News survey found that 42% of Americans had cursed in public in recent months. And while Clementine does not watch The Sopranos (regularly), she lives with two elder sisters who can recite the racier lines from the latest Austin Powers film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Baby Swears | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...claims. The intriguing question about Superman and Superboy: Are they working as a team or as future competitors? Much is made in the Hong Kong press of Richard's attempts to step out of his father's shadow; of how he was passed over in favor of elder brother Victor, now 35, as heir apparent to the Li empire; and of the differing styles of father and son. The father is reclusive, cordial, traditional and lives in the same house he bought for $13,000 in the 1960s. Richard likes junk food, can be blunt with subordinates, is building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Father, Like Son | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...Darling may have to wait to win election to a real-world government office before he can fill his briefcase with anything of importance, his younger brother is ahead of the game. Howard Keith Adams Darling is continuing the family tradition of attending West Point, a tradition which the elder Darling perhaps didn't follow because of a professed lack of interest in athletics. Tradition is crucial in the clan; some ancestors arrived in America via Jamestown in 1607, and before relocating to Texas, the Darlings were a "landed family" in South Carolina and Alabama. The name "Sterling Price Adams...

Author: By Sarah J. Ramer, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sterling Silver: Harvard's political darling rules his national administration | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

Tory knows returning to Progress will mean facing Hope's twin sister Faith and her elder brother Kincade, who is now the handsome master of Beaux Reves. Tory believes she has come back to found a gift shop and to prove that the dirt-poor child that townsfolk once knew has grown into a polished and self-sufficient businesswoman. But experienced romance readers will know that Tory's true purpose in the book is to hook up with Cade Lavelle and become mistress of Beaux Reves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: Passion on the Pages | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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