Word: fatherness
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...this film, based on a novel by James McBride, to give long-overdue attention to the role of African-American soldiers in World War II. While at work on it, Lee took a swipe at Eastwood over the absence of black soldiers in his historical epics Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. The Californian director fired back: "A guy like that should shut his face," to which Lee replied, "The man is not my father, and we're not on a plantation either...
...Personal Life: • 52 years old • Born in New York City; raised in River Vale, New Jersey • Father was a radio newscaster and editor at NBC News. Mother was a nurse. • Studied literature at Cornell University • Notorious night owl and self-described control freak • Is a proud pot smoker and is on the advisory board of NORML, an organization that promotes legalization of marijuana • Has never married and says he is a "committed bachelor" • In 2004, former girlfriend Coco Johnsen sued him for $9 million, saying he promised to marry and support...
...Research Library in the Digital Age,” as an attack on the press and on my own brother, John. John and I were raised to value a free press as the strongest buttress of democracy; and that principle touched us personally, because our father was killed as a correspondent for The New York Times in World War II. In my essay, I argued that reporters write stories about what happened, that news stories have a narrative element, and that they should not be read naively as if they were transparent windows through which readers can enjoy a perfect...
...other measures imply a greater influx of testosterone during puberty, according to Apicella. “This financial risk taking in men is the modern equivalent of male-to-male combat,” said Apicella, who found in a previous study that men with lower voices tend to father more children than men with higher voices. Apicella’s co-author, Anna S. J. Dreber, a visiting researcher from the Stockholm School of Economics, noted that “in an evolutionary sense, it makes sense that women are more risk averse” than...
...ElBaradei was born in Cairo in 1942 into an upper-middle-class family; his father, an attorney, once served as president of the Egyptian Bar Association...