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...might have been written with the calculation of getting chosen for Oprah's Book Club. (It wasn't, though it did make Good Morning America's reading list.) The 2002 novel is a coming-of-age story about a white girl, Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning), who flees her abusive father and, in the company of her black nanny Rosaleen, finds refuge and surrogate motherhood with three Afro-angelic sisters who run a bee farm. Why did Kidd, a white woman, choose these heroines? "I grew up surrounded by black women," she told one interviewer. "I feel they are like hidden...
...Growing up with a famous editorialist father (New York Times editor Frank Rich), was writing something that came naturally? Was there any pressure to fill his shoes...
...father was a proud Harvard Crimson Editor and this interview is probably the closest I’ll ever come to filling his shoes...
...about,” Breton said. “People want healthcare and education, but with which money? People are mad because they don’t know how the system will work for them.” Sir Ronald Cohen, known by some as “the father of British venture capital,” called on the audience to employ their skills to help the less fortunate. “We must use the methods that each of us learned at HBS to solve the world’s social problems,” Cohen said...
...quite 2 years old when his parents despaired of managing his tantrums; he would go into a "mad frenzy," he says, holding his breath until he passed out and fell to the floor. A Navy doctor offered a prescription: whenever McCain erupted, his mother would shout to his father, "Get the water!" Then his parents would fill a bathtub with cold water and drop their fully clothed son in. "Eventually," McCain recalls in his memoirs, "I achieved a satisfactory (if only temporary) control over my emotions...