Word: fatherness
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Some would argue that his childhood experiences, as well as his mixed heritage (his father was Kenyan, his mother from Kansas), gives him a better inner compass on foreign policy than most Americans. They cite the pioneering work of Ruth Hill Useem, the late sociologist of Michigan State University, who spent her career studying what she called Third Culture Kids - the millions of U.S. children (an estimated 20 million since the advent of mass air travel) who have been carted abroad by their missionary, diplomatic, corporate or military parents. These frequent-flier kids don't spend enough time in their...
...Living abroad does give you a wider view of the world," says Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser under Jimmy Carter, and a Polish-American who spent four years as a child living in Germany with his diplomat father. Obama is "a person with genuine sensitivity of world affairs," says Brzenzinski, who is supporting Obama. "It's not the conventional mouthing of culture sensitivities." Brzezinski points to Obama's greater willingness to meet leaders of hostile nations and his early resistance to the war in Iraq as examples of his superior intuition on foreign policy...
...Elijah Wald recounted how his father saw lobsters being killed for the purpose of experimentation, then insisted they be treated better...
...children’s books perhaps ought to be to the modern eye. Mutilation, murder, cannibalism, and cruelty mark the tales, making for somewhat scarring bedtime stories. 1. The Juniper Tree – A boy, salted with his sister’s tears, is served to his father for supper. Brought back to life as a bird by tears of blood, the boy kills his step-mother, who had decapitated him with the heavy lid of a chest, and everyone lives happily ever after. Hooray! 2. Little Red-Cap – A precursor to the better known...
...Hosseini’s book will have. The selling point of the movie is the plot, which chronicles the life of an Afghani boy, Amir, and his best friend, a young servant-boy named Hassan. The two friends endure a difficult parting-of-ways, and Amir and his father must ultimately leave Afghanistan for America when the Soviets invade. Years later, Amir returns to Kabul in order to save Hassan’s son, a boy he has never met, so that he can atone for past transgressions. The story is an ambitious one, filled with surprises and spanning decades...