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...single dad juggling roles or competing with an absent wife. "The deployed parent is the hero and the home parent is the heavy," he explains. For now, Stephanie and Steve have two parents at home, and the portraits of Eric and Heather can be retired from their place of honor in the dining room, until further notice...
...times, as author of the best original screenplay (Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata and Fanny). The Academy also gave him the Irving G. Thalberg Award for career achievement - the only foreign-language filmmaker to receive it. In 1960 he received a still higher honor: he graced the cover of TIME, the first foreign-language filmmaker to do so since Leni Riefenstahl...
...deemed the biggest one to be that of the cerebral poet. Schiller's friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later took the memento mori home to muse upon; he even wrote a reverential poem entitled Lines on Seeing Schiller's Skull. Since 1827, this cranium has had a place of honor in Weimar's ducal vault, later joined by Goethe's remains in what has become a shrine to German literature's Golden...
...from the first society to fear for its sons. Leo Braudy of the University of Southern California, in his 2003 book From Chivalry to Terrorism, noted recurring waves of anxiety. Europeans of the 18th century imagined that free trade and the death of feudalism would spell the end of honor and chivalry. Then, with the dawn of the Industrial Age, writers like John Stuart Mill worried that progress itself--with its speed and stress and short attention spans--would cause a sort of "moral effeminacy" and "inaptitude for every kind of struggle." By the end of the 19th century...
...break this cycle and begin the climb out of poverty. Last year it became a U.N.-backed Millennium Village and is now one of scores of such villages in more than a dozen countries in sub-Saharan Africa to receive aid from a new organization I had the honor of co-founding, Millennium Promise. Business and civic leaders helped form this poverty-ending alliance, which promotes holistic, community-driven economic-development initiatives...