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...many ways in which American life has become a game of chance--one that has no mercy on Middle America and the working poor--and what can be done to restore decent odds for the pursuit of happiness. --With reporting by Laura Karmatz and Barbara Kiviat and research by Joan Levinstein
...creativity of organizers like Joan Waters, a self-proclaimed family-oholic, is what makes these events bright, lively and meaningful every time. Waters, 47, who has been organizing the Curtis-Butler reunion at a naval base in southern Maryland every other year since 1985, sees the event as a chance to deepen the family connection and support one another in the larger world, a critical goal particularly among African-American families like hers. Her family get-together can draw as many as 125 participants...
DIED. JOHN GREGORY DUNNE, 71, novelist, essayist and (in collaboration with his wife Joan Didion) screenwriter; of a heart attack; in New York City. For five years in the late '50s, he was a writer for TIME. His novels (Dutch Shea, Jr.; True Confessions) were full of Irishry--tough and compassionate, knowing without being cynical, true expressions of a complicated, cranky, lovable man whose hatred of hypocrisy was legendary. But his best subject was Hollywood, which he anatomized in two books (Monster; The Studio) and many articles. These were inside jobs--but without the malevolence and condescension many writers bring...
Almost all SEED students plan to go to college. Many talk casually about applying to summer programs at schools like Cornell University or getting a job overseas. Parents are happy because they believe their kids are safe at the school. "It's given me peace of mind," says Joan Lyles, the guardian of Deon Milton, a senior...
...real saints around these days, but they've been turning up pretty regularly in the media: CBS's surprise hit Joan of Arcadia, David Guterson's Our Lady of the Forest, not to mention Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. You can see the appeal of these stories: there's something a touch American about people who transcend ordinary mortal failings to become saints. They're like the spiritual equivalent of Horatio Alger...