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...spending $25 million to recycle the old saw about quality time, the one that says to the parent trying to make partner at the law firm, "Don't worry if you spend more time with your clients than with your child. Just bear down like a freight train during those precious moments you're actually there"? And they say our tax dollars are wasted...
DIED. FOREGO, 27, one of racing's hardiest geldings; by lethal injection after fracturing his right hind leg; in Lexington, Ky. Enormous at 17 hands high, Forego raced like a runaway freight train--and his trainers complained that he carried about as much weight. He won 34 of 57 races, most memorably the 1976 Marlboro Cup. Lugging the top weight of 137 lbs., Forego thundered past Honest Pleasure in a come-from-behind victory, below, that helped earn him his third title as Horse of the Year...
Parker's memoir, by contrast, is a carefully constructed and subtle rendering of a richly textured life. The "first black woman" wherever she went--prep school, Radcliffe, a tony law firm--Parker deftly mines the universal in experiences that bear both the good fortune and freight of a privileged birthright. Her warm evocation of her childhood in Durham, N.C., where she ate several dinners each day to satisfy the neighbors who beckoned, "Gwennie Mac, come on in," makes you hunger for a time when children were everyone's responsibility...
...funeral arrangements cost about $2,000 to $3,000. There are two main expenses: a sealed metal coffin that meets airline standards and freight costs of about $700. "It would be cheaper to cremate them, but some older priests won't do a Mass if there is a cremation," Tobon says. He raises the money through appeals on two local radio stations. "Sometimes people will know the family or the village and send a donation. There is never enough." The money goes straight to the funeral home. He still owes for the last 15 funerals...
...uninspired sign featuring a cartoon CSX conductor--one of those corporate image-enhancing niceties that until a few weeks ago blurred into the desolate industrial landscape like so many slabs of sheet metal. For whom the sign's message is intended has always been unclear; CSX trains only carry freight, and it's too far away for motorists traveling the nearby interstate to view it. In hindsight, though, one can only wonder whether the sign is intended for that small population of train jumpers who somehow make Flint a destination...