Word: motherism
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...speech commemorating the new school year. "If you're still alive, then there is no reason to despair," he told his classmates and teachers. "I am living, and my life is hopeful." But in private, there are moments of doubt. "To get used to [the fact] that my mother is gone, it's very hard," he says. "But I am not the only one to suffer." Among the 36 students from his junior high school class, four died in the earthquake. "When we get together, we talk about those four," he says. "But we look to the future...
...someone who thinks success is within anyone's reach? Well, I'd like to think more the former than the latter. But you have to go back and ask, how was that change possible in my life? And the answer is that I was blessed to have a mother who understood that education was a liberator and that you get out of life what you put into it. And so one of the things that really concern me is the long tale of underachievement in New Zealand's education system, and I know that unless we can deliver credible change...
...think being raised by a single mother in a home with your two sisters has shaped your character? I've got a softer side to me. Look, you don't miss what you don't have. I like people. My strongest point on the campaign trail was that I was relaxed, and I think I can get on pretty easily with New Zealanders from all walks of life. The biggest challenge, I think, for any Prime Minister is to stay connected with the people who elect you. Once you lose sight of that, then the end is probably not that...
...made my skin crawl--remarked that she guessed that a "small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," the insult was personal and deep. For the first time in my life, I donated financially to a political campaign--Obama's. My mother, a beloved longtime community organizer, has been gone for 10 years, yet her accomplishments in the communities she loved are still lauded and taught to a new generation. Klein's comment--"This is who [community organizers] are: they are the people who won this election"--was a balm. Julie Yugend...
...Bragg Boulevard, the town largely reflects the values of today's Army--professional, family-oriented. The community is bearing the hardships of war with admirable grace and a sense of shared sacrifice. "I get taken care of here better than other places," says Millie Ferris, 26, an expectant mother whose husband is in Iraq. She went to the baby shower with half a dozen other pregnant Army wives and says more of her friends are deciding to stay in Fayetteville when their husbands deploy instead of returning to their hometowns. That's a story that doesn't need slogans...