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...sometimes resented my mother during those years for not being the mom that my friends had—one that helped with homework, or cooked a favorite meal, or came to watch me at football games or orchestra concerts. Other times I just didn’t care, as I went along with life as if she didn’t exist at all. I tried to do what I could to help her as I grew older and started to understand the depths of her health problems, but I recognized that it would never be the relationship I wanted...
...case, Black Friday is the perfect time to buy holiday gifts (as well as witness the ultimate “Soccer Mom Stampede,” occuring minutes before a store opens that sells Fur Real teddy bears). Usually, I sleep in, since my Christmas shopping consists of Seinfeld-inspired “re-gifting” of crappy birthday gifts—but since my mom wanted somebody to carry her boxes, I trudged along to our local Mega-mall...
Terrell might be up the bayou if Landrieu was a good ole girl lighting up the campaign trail. In a state that went for Clinton (the good-ole-boy thing) but soundly rejected Gore in 2000, Landrieu is more homecoming queen turned soccer mom than Big Easy backslapper. One of nine children of former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, she lives in her childhood home when in the state and walks a tightrope that might be described as compassionate conservative Democrat. She is great at delivering the pork (most mayors are grateful supporters), and she looks after the working class...
Potter works long hours but puts her family first. When her son, 16, was 3, she learned that he had a developmental disability. But after receiving extra help from experts and Mom, he excels in academics and music. She makes almost every volleyball game and piano recital for her son and daughter. Colleagues say the only time they saw her lose her concentration was when she paused during a meeting and declared, "I've got to have a Little Mermaid costume ready by 5 p.m." --By Chris Taylor/San Francisco
...other industrialized nation, to offer up Nakamura as a typical retailer, as a representative of anything other than a holdover from a bygone era, would be unfair. In other advanced countries, mom-and-pop shops are niche operators, accounting, for example, for only 19% of retail employment in the U.S. (measured by hours worked) and 26% in France. But in Japan, mom-and-pops are the rule not the exception, making up 55% of the retail labor force. They are, in other words, still the way the nation sells things. And they are woefully unproductive, generating only...