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...husband. Though the letter was not signed by the Nuncio and not the Pope, it conveyed Benedict's personal greetings: "I wish to convey to all of you, especially to Sargent and to Bobby, Maria, Timothy, Mark and Anthony, the warm greetings and paternal affection of the Holy Father.... His Holiness unites himself spiritually with each of you at this difficult time, holding close to his heart Eunice as she is called home to eternal life...
Where Rushdie, by now a friend, used baroque language to spin fantastical tales spanning continents and centuries, Kureishi stayed street. His father figures were faded and refined - dusty relics from a more gracious time who looked to literature or socialism to block out the cold realities of being foreign-born in 1970s Britain. Their sons weren't Pakistanis but "Pakis," who snorted coke, fornicated and embraced the Thatcherite dream of making money fast. "When I was in school, the long-standing stereotype of the South Asian male was of the studious nerd, who was going straight to an enviable university...
...East New York section of Brooklyn "in search of a better life," Blankfein says, when he was 3. The family lived in the Linden Houses, a complex of 19 buildings completed in 1957 that contained 1,590 apartments. After losing his job driving a truck, Blankfein's father took a night job sorting mail at the post office - "which in our neck of the woods was considered to be a very good job, because you couldn't lose it," Blankfein says. His mother worked as a receptionist at a burglar-alarm company - "one of the few growth industries...
...Ellwood said, “but by the end he was the senator.”FINDING HIS WAYEdward Moore Kennedy was born on February 22, 1932 in Boston, Mass., the youngest of Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s nine children. Kennedy followed in the footsteps of his father and older brothers by enrolling at Harvard in the fall of 1950. At the end of his freshman year, Kennedy was suspended after he was caught having another student take his Spanish A final exam in his place. Both the student, William A. Frate ’54, and Kennedy...
...need to be themselves. Not every dad is going to be a stereotypical guy who acts as a counterpoint to the typical good girl, but there's no question that men have more social permission to take up space, in every sense of the word. So just having a father in your life who takes up space comfortably and who helps you do it and makes you feel good about the times that you express yourself completely has an extraordinary impact on a girl's development...