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...nephews in Norwalk, Calif., a predominantly Hispanic working-class suburb of Los Angeles, she waxes eloquent about the diaper brand's absorption abilities and its "softer cloth." At a baby shower before her 6-month-old daughter Fatima was born, a friend gave Parilla a competing diaper as a gift. She regrets ignoring her sister's advice to stay away from other brands. Those other diapers, she says, caused her daughter to break out in a rash...
...twixters are getting married later, they are missing out on some of the social-support networks that come with having families of their own. To make up for it, they have a special gift for friendship, documented in books like Sasha Cagen's Quirkyalone and Ethan Watters' Urban Tribes, which asks the not entirely rhetorical question Are friends the new family? They throw cocktail parties and dinner parties. They hold poker nights. They form book groups. They stay in touch constantly and in real time, through social-networking technologies like cell phones, instant messaging, text messaging and online communities like...
Christina L. Adams ’06, chair of the campus life committee (CLC), said she was “continually impressed” with the members of the CLC, and presented each member with a small gift...
...then offered the outgoing leaders a gift from the entire council—books...
...deploying that gift, he is greatly aided by his actors. Nobody is better than Quaid at playing pleasantness under pressure; he succumbs neither to frustration nor to frenzy. Johansson is marvelous too. Her Alex will have her way with Dan and with Carter, but she never surrenders her sweetness, her young woman's hesitancies and insecurities...