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That preference for the arriviste should not be surprising, for Margaret Thatcher is an exemplar of the new Tory. From her earliest days in Grantham, where she and her family lived above her father's grocery store, she seems to have been infused with a Girl Scout Handbook of virtues. "I'm a born hard worker," she told a reporter. "I watched my mother work like a Trojan in the shop and house." She sometimes repeats one of her grandmother's favorite homilies: "If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing well...
...middle years, they are following the normal course of settling down, devoting more energy to their work and in general becoming more conservative. Caroline Stewart, 34, a Philadelphia journalist, managed to juggle both the new morality and the old during the '70s. As she grew up in Pittsburgh, her father blinked the message "Stay a virgin at all costs." She headed to Washington and became a grudging conscript in the sexual revolution. After her first romance broke up, she recalls, "I was wild, for me. Many people had a great smorgasbord of relationships. You had them without giving thought...
Benazir Bhutto was a divisive figure. Adored by the millions who saw her as the inheritor of her father's political legacy and heir to his Pakistan People's Party, she will always be remembered as "Pinky." It was an affectionate nickname used by those who had the opportunity to know her in earlier days, before the title Prime Minister preceded her name, or now, "assassinated former Prime Minister." But many others see her as an opportunist, a young idealist who studied at the knee of her father only to grow into a potent political force...
Your book Big Russ and Me is a reverential look at your relationship with your father. Do you and your son share a similar bond? -Eli Wongtrakool, Sharpsville, Pa.It's much different growing up in Washington in 2008 than it was growing up in Buffalo in 1958. But the lessons, I think, are timeless. I'm very close to my son and my father, and for that alone I'm a very blessed...
...upon us, and the lives of many will be filled with chocolates, flowers, and sappy letters of affection. But under all the candy, cards, dinners—and, for some, diamonds—Valentine’s Day has a long history with roots in Catholicism and the father of English literature. The Catholic Church has recognized over 10 St. Valentines throughout the ages, but the co-president of True Love Revolution (TLR) said that this day, February 14th, has particular importance. “There were two main St. Valentines in the 3rd century, a bishop of Tirni...