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...five points. The way to reach the red states—and to prevent further erosion in blue states—is to lead, not follow, on a real family values agenda: policies that reward marriage and education, national service and personal responsibility, that help parents balance work and family??an agenda that will trump narrow appeals to intolerance...
Clad in a pinstripe suit with checkered sneakers and an “America’s First Family?? pin, King described himself as a “personal friend” of Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie. But what was the maestro behind Mike Tyson doing at a political event...
...Kirby channeled his Eastern spirits at the 2004 Harvard College Fund Assembly: “Confucius asked, ‘How does one govern a family?’—or, by extension, a university? And his answer was this, ‘You govern a family??—or a university—‘as if you would cook a small fish; that is, very gently indeed.’ Here, I fear, I must break with Confucius. Sometimes we need to turn up the heat. Sometimes we need to flip that...
...parents, brother, and housekeeper, surprising them by bringing along his blind Vietnamese wife, Liat. No sooner does the family adjust to her presence and Davey’s repudiation of America than it is revealed that Davey’s father has been unemployed for five months and the family??s belongings have been repossessed. It is up to the family, with the help of an uncle in the army, to reclaim their house and keep Davey from immolating himself in political protest...
...after his family is kicked out of the house. “She’s some woman,” he tells his mother, when she asks about the owner of one wallet. The primary uncaring figure, though, is Hazel (Andrew G. Sullivan ’06), the family??s colored maid, played by a white man in drag. A physically imposing woman—Sullivan is built like a football player—Hazel is just as likely to pull off the tablecloth as she is to sweep up the ensuing mess...