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...know is what the Philippines will look like when the millions of children these workers are leaving behind grow up. A UNICEF-commissioned study estimates that roughly one in four kids - about 9 million children nationwide - have at least one parent working abroad. More and more, that means a mother living halfway around the world for 10 or 15 years at a time. The government rightly applauds "Overseas Filipino Workers," or OFWs as they are commonly called in the country, as heroes for the sacrifices they make for their families. But while children whose mothers are nurses in Canada...
...right to the point. When he was three years old, he had a poster of the 42 American presidents in his bedroom. Within weeks he had memorized every name, and he was already picturing his face in the blank spot the poster had left for the 43rd president. His mother, A. Maria Ballesteros, said she got used to explaining to friends that she and her husband weren’t forcing Chris to memorize anything. “Otherwise they’d think we were weird parents,” she said. Chris was just an unusual child. Since...
...collect unusual stamps. So when a particular letter arrived at Caleb’s house last June, his father immediately separated it from the other mail. “I said, ‘I think this is from Karl Rove,’ and [Caleb’s mother] and I looked at each other and wondered ,” Steve C. Weatherl told me. Caleb had arranged for the Republican Club to bring Karl Rove to campus that April. The high-profile speaking event had gone very smoothly, but Rove had already written Caleb a thank-you note...
...love issues”) and maybe that was enough. I asked Carl Cannon whether he thought Caleb might have White House dreams. Caleb had been in Cannon’s study group at the IOP, and Cannon said Caleb’s luminous smile had reminded him of Mother Teresa. “Caleb may be a little too normal to want to be president,” Cannon told me. What do you mean by normal? I asked. “Normal,” he said, “in terms of mentally healthy...
...turned out, Dunham's koa (wood) urn arrived on Election Day, Soetoro-Ng wrote in her e-mail. Soetoro-Ng surrounded the urn with pictures of Dunham's late daughter Stanley Ann Dunham (the mother of Soetoro-Ng and the President-elect), Dunham's grandchildren and her great grandchildren - "all of us who benefited so much from her steady voice and hand," Soetoro-Ng wrote...