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What spells the difference between couples like the Lowrys and those who feel torn apart by the burden? One factor is a couple's goals at the start of their marriage, suggests David Leckey, 53, a writer and the husband of Margaret Neal, 49, a gerontologist who studies caregiving. "If you go into a marriage thinking, 'This is about me and my wife,' family is a drag on that. We're into the idea of the extended family, that it's all part of the package," he says of his marriage of 13 years. Three years ago, Leckey supported...
...named Dudley Randall. I read that book cover to cover and dog-eared it. I let it take root inside me and grow, as George Steiner would say. Those poets, from Paul Lawrence Dunbar up through Ntozake Shange, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker and Margaret Danner, they were my first influence, even before I was writing. It took me a long time to learn how to read white people’s poetry...
...band of mates and I braved uncharted suburbia territory with the distinct hopes of trick-or-treating at the home of our esteemed president, Lawrence Summers. My problem set waiting forlornly at my desk, I set out with a motley crew: the former British Prime Minister/current sex symbol Margaret Thatcher and a scantily clad Chiquita (of banana fame...
With no candy in our stylish Margaret Thatcher bag and no snapshots of the big cheese to document our evening, we again pleaded with the gentleman to make our trip worthwhile. Oddly enough, he was less than willing to cooperate. The door shut in our face, we spent a few more minutes on the President’s lawn, pondering renegade photo ops and speculating on the true identity of this self-proclaimed grounds-keeper. He took this occasion to yell us off of his property with an indecipherable Eastern European growl...
...MARGARET CARLSON writes TIME's Public Eye column from Washington. Since Sept. 11, she has written about everything from Rudy Giuliani to George Bush to patriotic splurging. Talk to her on Wednesday at 8 p.m. E.T. on AOL, Keyword: Live...