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Though Pangilinan’s finish was not high enough to place her in the United States final, she was subsequently named to the Olympic squad of her father??s native Philippines as the country’s sole female swimming representative and will travel to Athens to compete in late August...
Tsurumi said that the younger Bush boasted that his father??s political string-pulling had gotten him to the top of the waiting list for the Texas National Guard instead of serving in Vietnam. When other students were frantically scrambling for summer jobs, Tsurumi said, Bush explained that he was planning instead for a visit to his father in Beijing, where the senior Bush was serving at the time as the special U.S. envoy to China...
...started jury duty in lower Manhattan the Monday after Father??s Day. Over lemonade and burgers, I’d rehearsed with my family every line I could use to avoid serving—“Any government that would send my peers to an unjustified conflict overseas,” went one favorite, “does not deserve my participation.” My voir dire would be my bully pulpit, a chance to proclaim my dissent in ringing tones, overheard and applauded by dozens of Manhattanites. Plus, I wanted to get out early...
...chagrined—it was Father??s Day, after all—and I decided to be more open to the possibility of serving on a jury. Sure enough, after a day and a half of waiting at the courthouse I was called in for a domestic abuse panel. The courtroom, the judge in his robes, the defendant consulting with his lawyer, even the bailiffs with their not-so-inconspicuous weapons, awed me. “I should do this,” I thought...
...year of high school, a coworker asked me if I was related to Michael Steinhardt. Innocently, I confirmed his suspicions: “Not only am I related to Michael Steinhardt, but he’s my dad!” I replied, excited and impressed that my own father??s name had acquired a positive and prestigious reputation in the Baltimore metropolitan area...