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Patiently, and with loving humor, Mistry develops a portrait of a household: Gustad savoring mock-Tennyson verses at the dinner table, telling his friends of his son's college prospects, singing The Donkey Serenade to his ailing daughter. The details of his life are wonderfully exact: a bottle of Camel Royal Blue Ink, old copies of Bertrand Russell, an 1897 edition of Barrere and Leland's Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant. And Mistry catches the pungent cadences of Indian English as they have seldom been caught before: "What everything have you told them? Always I shout and scream, while...
Fuchs says a return to the 1950s middle-class model, with women confined to childcare and household responsibilities, is not a solution. Instead, he says, public policy must address these issues...
...police here are more on top of things then they've ever been," he boasts. Balles may act as point man with the bureaucracy to get streetlights for a dark alley, or arrange marital counseling for a household that accounts for repeated 911 calls when the couple starts fighting. Defusing situations like that can be highly cost effective. In many cities, more than 60% of emergency calls are generated by just 10% of the households...
Tohoru Masamune, 31, grew up in a Japanese-American household distinguished by world-class scientists on both sides of his family. He graduated from M.I.T. in 1982 with a degree in chemical engineering. His success in the family tradition appeared assured. Then everything went haywire. "I realized I was totally in the wrong line of work," he says. Last year Masamune stunned his parents by dropping a well-paying job with a computer company to become an actor, a career he had been pursuing furtively on a part-time basis. "It was a huge risk," he says...
...staff and Senate majority leader: both John Sununu and George Mitchell are of Arab descent, as are Paula Abdul, Ralph Nader and Danny Thomas. Arab Americans are better educated than the U.S population as a whole, more likely to hold management or professional positions, and wealthier: the average household income of $22,973 is above the U.S. average...