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...story is the same as that of many other military wives. My husband is well on the way to his third tour in Iraq. We have two little girls who barely know their father. Each time he deploys, I brace myself: he may not come home alive. This war is ridiculous. Our soldiers are worn out, the equipment is worn out, and so are our children. How long can we sustain this lifestyle? Every other year, until the war is over, my husband will be deployed. And when my soldier is home, he isn't resting. He is hard...
...Fathers on the Fast Track The dads' dilemma in Asia and beyond is compounded by father substitutes such as television, the Internet, gaming gadgets, nannies and even mothers willing to take on the role of fathers [April 16]. Fathering is deliberate and takes a lot of hard work. Sometimes it is easier to be passionate about excellence at work than at home. If we fathers have goals and visions for our careers and businesses, we need to have a greater vision for our families and an even greater resolve to do everything that we can to make that vision...
...They did more than stare. Over the next few years Chai, her younger brother, their Chinese father and Irish-American mother were insulted, harassed and ostracized. Their house was shot at from passing cars, and their pet dogs gunned down on the lawn. Her father ultimately resigned his academic job in frustration over narrow-minded colleagues. "It felt as though we were being punished for crimes we hadn't realized we had committed," Chai writes in Hapa Girl, her searing memoir of growing up half-Chinese in the American heartland. "There were many people who wanted my father to suffer...
...Chai's father, Winberg Chai, was a respected professor of Asian studies whose own parents had left Taiwan for New York when he was a boy. He married Carolyn Everett, a beautiful California artist and, in 1979, accepted a vice presidency at the University of South Dakota. It was an opportunity to move his young family from the crime and crowding of greater New York to the healthier and supposedly friendlier air of rural America. As for race, writes his daughter, "we had imagined the segregated past was just that, past...
...along with the last anti-miscegenation laws. But word had evidently not yet reached the Chais' corner of South Dakota-a bleak, windswept realm of farming and ranching, where rising interest rates and falling prices for agricultural goods were pushing many of their neighbors toward bankruptcy. "My father didn't realize that he was moving his family into a region whose economic base was, in fact, being devastated," says Chai. That economic anxiety, plus growing unrest among Native Americans on nearby Indian reservations, only deepened a long-standing resentment of outsiders and nonwhites. "We soon discovered every law contained...