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Otherwise there's simply no explanation for the assignment my sister brought home this month. Her first history unit is "The American Dream," and assignment number one was a questionnaire for Mom, Dad and dinner guests about what the American Dream means to us. The answers all had to be yes or no, without qualification, which in itself tends to preclude critical thinking. But it was the questions that really bothered me. Loaded is an understatement...
...heart, the Heisman Trophy winner, the No. 1 pick of the N.F.L., was never a football player at all. "Really, I got into football from peer pressure. My mom never wanted me to play," says Jackson, who declined millions in Tampa Bay to accept hundreds of thousands in Kansas City. " 'I'm not having you all broke up and limping and sore,' she'd say. When I'd come home that way, she'd lock me out. I'd stay the night with friends...
...Queens, on her way to Our Lady of Wisdom Academy. Ozone Park, then as now, was a neighborhood of two-story row houses with small, well-tended yards, awnings over the windows and crucifixes above the doors. Most of its residents were Italian and middle class. She would pass mom-and-pop stores, funeral parlors, and butcher shops that displayed an array of Italian sausages in the window. On her right, she often glanced at an inconspicuous red brick building known, oddly enough, as the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club. It caught her attention because there were always men loitering...
...screen as the movie unraveled, subject to some tacit gravitational pull. In this sense it's a genuine edge-of-your-seater, maybe even a beneath-the-seater, or shall we say a...crouching-in-the-aisler? Bring a pal. Bring a security blanket. Bring your goshdarn mom...
...Later that year they gave Victory's brother to George and Barbara Bush during the G.O.P. Convention in Detroit. His name: Veep.) Then came Freebo, a Doberman-retriever mix that originally belonged to Daughter Patti. When her itinerant life-style made it impossible for Patti to care for him, Mom and Dad came to the rescue. Probably the most renowned canine in the Reagan menagerie is Lucky, the Bouvier des Flandres sheep dog who arrived as a Christmas present from the March of Dimes girl a year and a half ago. Despite the dog's charms, Lucky proved too rambunctious...