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That night proved to be Billings’ fondest Harvard memory...
...stepdaughter, 13. He carpools his daughters to school in the morning, plays ball on the lawn with them some evenings and frequently takes them out for family bowling nights. Fitzgerald, who played a year of pro football with the San Diego Chargers, says some of his fondest memories are of the old days, when his girls were little. "I've been down on the floor playing with Barbies with them," he says. "I just try to put my girls in situations where they feel good, because the greatest relationships in the world are the result of knowing how to talk...
...defeat. As he prepared to make his last stand, did bin Laden still rejoice in his victory, confident that God would smile on his achievement? Back in November when he sat in front of the camera with the servile Saudi sheik to giggle and gloat over triumphs beyond his fondest hopes, he confessed to only one miscalculation: he had thought that only the tops of the skyscrapers would collapse, killing hundreds. What a lovely surprise--the answer to a prayer, his disciples suggested--that the buildings actually crumpled, killing thousands. He had succeeded even beyond his dreams...
...glitzy Bombay function and illness was not going to deter the 90-year-old actor from celebrating a colleague's life. But a cardiac arrest did. And thus ended the six-decade career of a film laboratory assistant who became one of Bollywood's most celebrated heroes. My fondest memory of Kumar is from 1958 when he acted in one of my father's films, Mr. X, playing a man who discovers a secret brew that makes him invisible. Mr. X could sit in on conspiracies and expose the bad guys to make the world a better place. Years later...
...tinpot tyrants of the Third World—enjoy painting us as, the champion of depravity and crass materialism, of corporate bottom lines and gaudy, hyper-capitalist excess, the America whose culture drowns in a sea of sadism and sensuality? Or will we be the America of our own fondest dreams, the champion of liberty at home and abroad, the nation whose commercial zeal is tempered by faith, hope and charity? The choice, for better or worse, is ours to make...