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...restoring it for the school year. "I can't afford to get him the new style all these teenagers are into these days," Montero says. "He's been bugging me for it, but it had to end. We're just in a time of major cutbacks." Fewer kids texting on their cell phones during class? No one said the back-to-school recession didn't have its benefits...
...still stand by everything I wrote. The Giants are good, the stadium is great, and the fans are all right. Also, as my mom pointed out to me after the game, the game I had gone to marked the 50th anniversary of Willie McCovey’s first major league home run. I feel like that should have been a sign, but sadly it’s not. Thinking back to that game, I realize I had no idea what happened in the actual baseball game. That’s because I was too distracted by all the trappings...
...instead climbs two floors up to an empty office and studies her thousand-page prep book until 9 or 10 at night. Caroline’s starting her fourth year of a five year bachelors-masters program in Nantes, of which she hasn’t decided her major. (“I’ll figure it out when I get [to registration],” she claims.) We may never live in the same country again—but that's why we will always enjoy sharing our very different lives...
...Television, radio, music, church services can all be consumed in their native language. Indeed virtually all one’s needs—from restaurants, supermarkets, and karaoke bars, to medical, legal, insurance and real estate services—are readily available in one’s mother tongue. Major cities such as New York and Los Angeles are as much or more about a polyglot patchwork of such self-contained ethnic communities as they are about anything that could be called a dominant culture. Indeed, even whatever could loosely be called a “dominant culture?...
...record having said this is unlike other crises, and it's the most serious crisis we've faced and it will have long-term repercussions. It's the end of an era, and there will have to be major adjustments. Those who expect that we will return to business as usual don't understand what's happening. See TIME's Pictures of the Week...