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Dukakis' upbringing was not as privileged. But despite his current emphasis on being the son of immigrants, he had all the advantages an upper-middle- class life could provide. Within twelve years of arriving in America at 16 with $25 in his pocket, Panos Dukakis, the candidate's father, had learned English and graduated from high school, Bates College and Harvard Medical School, the first Greek immigrant to do so. Michael's mother Euterpe Boukis, a Phi Beta Kappa, was graduated from Bates twelve years after her arrival from Greece. Although the two had crossed paths briefly a decade earlier...
...building on it. Panos had few distractions; he never swung a baseball bat or shot a basketball with his kids. Says Michael: "My dad was not an intellectual. His two passions in life were medicine and his family, in reverse order." The warmest memories Dukakis has of his father are the evenings he would make it home in time to tuck him into bed. Alexandra Dukakis, Panos' sister-in-law, recalls that Dr. Dukakis would drop out of any discussion about politics, preferring to sit back and watch. "Leave me alone," he would say when asked his opinion...
Michael (he was never called Mike) was a model and diligent son. He recalls, "My father was an Old World father in many ways. You had a series of things to do and you just did them." For Michael, they included bringing home A's, doing chores without being asked, earning his own spending money from his paper route, becoming an Eagle Scout and working hard enough to make first- string point guard on the basketball team. His mother pushed as hard as his father did. Dukakis remembers his father telling his mother when he was about 16, "If this...
...says. "When all those people get together with ATVs, and you combine that with alcohol, you have a real problem." Horror stories abound. Former River Guide Eric Dunn recalls an encounter in which an ATV jostled a canoe and knocked a little boy into the river. The child's father and the ATV driver "went at it for a while," recalls Dunn dryly. "Over three years ago, a young boy tried to run down me and my wife and son," Marlin relates. "The boy splashed us on the first pass. The next time he was going to bump the canoe...
Oscar, for openers, is the sole surviving child of a widower named Theophilus Hopkins, a naturalist renowned for his studies along the rugged English coast of Devon and a fire-breathing evangelical preacher. The lad eventually tastes a Christmas pudding, strictly forbidden by his father's severe regimen, is punished and rebels. He leaves home, settles in with the local Anglican minister, and eventually enters Oriel College, Oxford, to study < for holy orders in the Church of England. Unfortunately, no one has seen fit to pay his way -- not his impoverished adoptive father and certainly not his real...