Word: fatherness
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...their four sons by running a corner shop and tailoring clothes. Pineda performed in local singing competitions until the age of 13, when his mother died from an extended illness. Medical bills had drained their savings, leaving the family homeless and living with relatives. Not wanting to burden his father, Pineda struck out on his own, collecting newspapers and bottles, and living on the street for nearly two years. When he was 15, a friend encouraged him to start singing again, beginning Pineda's 25-year career as a cover band singer in the Philippines and Hong Kong...
...then - Tim Russert was astounded by the joys of the job. Early on, he helped arrange an interview with the Pope for the Today Show - and Tim did it up right: He brought along red NBC News baseball caps for the Cardinals and a white one for the Holy Father. "He put it on!" Tim told me when he came home. "We have pictures!" Then he said, more quietly, "But, you know, it was really something being in his presence. You felt something holy. It was almost as if the air was different." And that was Tim - exuberant, irreverent, brilliant...
...roots - in part, because he never lost track of his dad, Big Russ, a Buffalo sanitation worker who survives him. Tim would review his Sunday questions with Big Russ in mind, always asking himself, "What would Dad want to know?" About ten years ago, he decided to buy his father a car. "Buy anything you want, Dad," Tim offered. Big Russ picked a Ford. "So I said, to him, 'Dad, you can get a Mercedes - anything you want,'" Tim told me later. "But he says, 'No Timmy, I want a Crown Vic. That's what the cops drive...
...long been a dream of George W. Bush - just as it had been for his father - to move a big block of Hispanics from the Democratic to the Republican fold. The former Texas governor had tried during his first year in office to get his party to ease the path of immigrants from Latin America into the U.S., but quickly dropped the effort after 9/11. When he returned to it in his second term, he never put his back into it - and found his own party downright hostile to the idea...
...going to tell my wife I spent the day at the beach," joked a sweat-soaked, middle-aged guy, brushing off his overalls during a break from shoveling heavy sand into orange bags. A father and daughter, an inner-city church youth group, brawny twentysomething guys and spindly-legged teenage girls, they were all there - scooping and shoveling sand from large piles heaped onto a residential street next to a small city park...