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...love video games. I played my first one--it was Pong--when I was 7. I feel lucky to be part of the first generation of gamers. I also get to be a first-generation-gamer parent; my parents regarded games with a primitive, chimplike suspicion, but my daughter Lily will have a parent who understands them and plays alongside her. A cool parent...
...often play the role of a mother in films. Which of your mom roles best reflects how you parent in real life? -Andrea Cooper, Hartford, Conn.There is a little bit of me in a lot of them. I had a lot to do with the creation of the mom in Stepmom. Some of the mistakes that she made, I have made. A lot of the details in Stepmom were things that came out of my relationship with my children. When I did Anywhere But Here, for instance, it was a nice way to practice learning...
...workers of attempted kidnapping in their efforts to secretly fly 103 children they claimed were orphans from war-torn Darfur out of eastern Chad to France for urgent care. Later investigations concluded that virtually all the children were in fact relatively healthy Chadian nationals with at least one living parent, and elsewhere uncovered a range of troubling details surrounding Zoé's Ark and its mission...
...Airlines, China's third largest carrier by revenue, was hailed as an example of capitalism invading the country's tightly controlled airspace. China Eastern was entertaining an offer by Singapore Airlines to buy 24% of the company for $920 million when a rival bidder, China National Aviation Corp. (CNAC), parent of flag carrier Air China, swooped in with a promise to beat that offer. In an uncharacteristic move, airline-industry regulators in Beijing said they would allow China Eastern's shareholders to settle the matter...
...years. Marc C. McGovern, a member of the School Committee, said he was excited to have a mayor with close ties to the school system, regardless of what Simmons decides on the superintendent. “I feel that her experience both as a committee member and as a parent will give her a very good understanding and a deep level of commitment,” said McGovern, who spoke out against renewing Fowler-Finn’s contract in 2006. Simmons also said she would focus on building connections not only between branches of the city government but also...