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JEAN FEGGINS, mother of Private First Class Albert Nelson, claiming military officials lied about how her son died in Iraq after a video surfaced that seems to show his death by friendly fire...
...real time so families can keep an eye on their kids. "You don't want to just push helicopter parents away entirely," says Angela Cottrell, associate director of residential education. Even undergrad residential advisers like sophomore Deno Saclarides do some parental hand-holding. After a call from the mother of one of his freshman advisees, Saclarides says, "I wrote on his door, 'Sweetie, I haven't heard from you in a while. Call...
...half its graduates now go on to four-year schools. One of them is Jennifer Wooden Legs, 29, daughter of the college-board chairman, whose academic career was postponed by five horrific years of meth addiction. ("Very awful stuff, very hard to get over," she says.) Jennifer, a single mother, will graduate next June, and plans to study psychology at Montana State University in Billings and then "come back and help." Chief Dull Knife College, she says, "turned around my idea that I couldn't make something of myself or give my kids a better life. I'm still surprised...
...people who go on to become food critics and restaurant reviewers. They are the food snobs who know what they like and are unrelenting in their opinions. The egalitarians, on the other hand, are the ones who wax nostalgic about steaming bowls of tripe prepared by their mother in the winter, or the chicken feet they had at dim sum with their grandparents. For them, whether or not they like a food depends much more on the company and memories surrounding the dish than on the taste of the item itself. (Tripe, nota bene, is cow stomach.) These...
...human interest story about people prevailing against the odds.” “Seabiscuit” became a box office hit, with an all-star cast including Tobey McGuire, Chris Cooper, and Jeff Bridges. Snider attributes her consistency to remaining connected to the world around her. A mother of two daughters, she tries to stay hip and inspired in order to keep her outlook fresh and uninhibited.“You need to be grounded internally and excited about the world around you,” Snider said. “If I were out of touch...