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...Dickerson: Any child who loses a parent goes through a period of discovery afterwards. There's an old saying about the real stories coming out after the funeral. My experience with that was supercharged. Mom leftme 20 boxes of material from her life - her journals as a little girl, her diaries throughout her life, her love letters with my father and her reporter's notebooks from 30 years in Washington. Ours was a personal story that I thought needed to be told but when I read all the history and got a peek at the inner workings of Washington...
...power better than most of her colleagues. I tend to think that's OK, especially today. The news diet is full of unknowing criticism and praise. Why not have at least one person who is on the inside who can present a knowing, if limited, view. In the end Mom was undone by her access. She was too close to the politicians and her bosses at NBC didn't like that. No reporter today could get as close as she got. No president lets anybody get that close any more...
...sure what to make of that picture. It was meant to be provocative but there's a cost. For all of the people spurred into having an adult conversation about the tradeoffs and Vargas' decision to scale back her professional career to be a mom there will be plenty who will not. For a public woman about to make Vargas' choice, the prospect of a magazine turning her choice into the subject ofprovocative editorial art won't make her decision easier. It'll be great when women can make the choice Vargas did and the world yawns. Mom would love...
Does your mom go to your concerts? Once in a while, along with my wife and daughter Angelina Jean, 18 months. I was performing in Toronto and I said, "This is for Angelina," and they said, "Jolie?" And I said, "No, my daughter...
...system, which has been in place for a decade, has made Jefferson County one of the most integrated school districts in the country. But if Crystal Meredith, a single mom who was told her son could not transfer to another elementary school because he is white, has her way, the whole thing will be dismantled. And plenty of critics agree that it should be. Meredith and others contend that the guidelines amount to an unconstitutional quota system. So Jefferson County finds itself in an ironic position. After years of court-ordered desegregation, the school district will appear before...