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...giving a speech in March 2000, he did what he did when any member of the traveling press corps was in his or her hometown: he summoned us to his room so he could meet the parents. As he talked about the rigors of life on the trail, my mother politely explained how she was working her heart out to help Al Gore win the state of California...
...father was President, and her father served in Congress and then as mayor of Baltimore. They both came to politics later in life, and they both mean it when they say that elections are not everything; if they lose, life will go on. Bush has the ranch, and my mother has her grandkids. And, of course, some people have made the mistake of underestimating both of them...
Carrie Lemack, a 2006 Kennedy School graduate whose mother died in the Sept. 11 attacks and who works for both organizations, emphasized the importance of promoting student awareness regarding the threat of nuclear terrorism...
...apologies that elevated the obscure racial slur into headline status. Then, amid speculation about Allen's possible Jewish heritage, Allen told a reporter that questions about that heritage amounted to "aspersions" on his character. Never mind that the chatter turned out to have a concrete source: Allen's mother was, in fact, Jewish, though Allen took pains to emphasize he was not raised in the faith. "I still had a ham sandwich for lunch," he boasted on the day he finally confirmed his mother's background. "And my mother made great pork chops...
...both of them. I was also there the day that two-year-old Adam said ‘fuck’ to another little boy when, during a playdate, the other child threw a Nerf ball over Adam’s head. The boy’s mother, in earshot, was not pleased. Their favorite teddy bears, which the clever children have both named ‘Cow,’ were gifts from me that I picked up at the Coop the day they were born and brought home during a break. Their favorite computer game?...