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...Seinfeld, who has an older sister, Carolyn Liebling, describes his parents, Kal and Betty Seinfeld, as loving "but not interested in a good way." Seinfeld's mother had grown up in orphanages and foster care. His father, who owned a sign-making business, came from a broken home. "They were loners," says Seinfeld. "They kind of raised us in a very hands-off way. I said, 'I want to be a comedian.' They said, 'Oh, well, we look forward to hearing about it.'" When his father died in 1985, Seinfeld was already a successful comedian who had appeared...
...essential goal [of the program] is to foster a literary creativity, and to engender a new interest in writing,” said Feeney, the founding coordinator of 826 Boston, and one of the earliest participants in Eggers’ workshops in San Francisco...
Designed by Sir Norman Foster with sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and Arup engineers, the Millennium Bridge (5), which links pedestrians at the Tate Modern on the south side of the river to St. Paul's Cathedral on the north, is still known affectionately by Londoners as the "wobbly bridge," although its seasickness-inducing swing has been corrected...
...every patrol car in town was following me. I think that's a symbol of how the community as a whole watched over children. And in a small town, everything you did was noticed. If you won an award, your picture would be in the paper right alongside John Foster Dulles...
...Olympics will be ready in time. Eleven of the 12 sporting venues are on track to be finished by the end of the year. A fifth subway line to the airport will start a month before the opening ceremony, and a brand-new airport terminal designed by Norman Foster is scheduled to open in early 2008. Half a million volunteers are being trained to answer visitors' questions--about one for every foreign tourist expected to show up. Government officials say some 4 million Beijing residents have received English-language lessons. Famous for aloofness and droll irony, the city's people...