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...father of a 7-month-old, I read with keen interest your cover story "The Myth About Boys" [Aug. 6]. In our digitized, globalized 21st century society, we value orderliness and predictability. Yet boys are all about disorder: digging in the dirt, scuffed knees, taking apart Dad's favorite portable radio to "see how it works," learning the rules and etiquette of street basketball. As the article points out, boys learn best by doing. The inevitable bits of temporary pain that occur through mistakes and failures forge the common sense and confidence that allow young boys to successfully navigate through...
...Marine Corps lieutenant who had just graduated from Harvard. After the ceremony, the young man returned to his dorm room in full dress uniform and received a spontaneous round of applause from classmates. A campus police officer took him aside to shake his hand. The young man's father observed, "It was like something out of a movie...
What events in your life made allowed you who you are today? -Dinh Phan, Silver Spring, Md. The Marine Corps. It instilled a great sense of discipline that I can call on when I need to. Growing up without a father also had a big effect and being the youngest in the family. I think every situation you find yourself in-the traffic you go through, the lines you wait in, even mundane things have an effect drop by drop...
Jacob Zuma was born in the poor, sparsely populated area of Nkandla in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. His father, a policeman, died when he was 3 and his mother found work as a domestic servant in Durban. Zuma was working full-time by 15. His elder brother was an ANC member, and at 17 Zuma joined too. The apartheid government banned the party the next year, 1960. In 1963, Zuma was arrested, convicted of trying to overthrow the government and sentenced to 10 years, which he served on Robben Island, the famous prison off Cape Town where Nelson...
...verses that speak of eternity and our hope of Heaven-passages like Psalm 23, or the first few verses of Revelation 21. My mind often turns also to Jesus' words in John 14: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you." I know Ruth has now entered that heavenly home, and that some day soon I will join her. This gives me great comfort...