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With a "Harvard Parent 2001" pin stuck in a shirt reading "Taiwan NOT part of China," Yih-Yih Lin left his family behind during a Freshman Parents Weekend event Saturday morning and stood alone in front of the Science Center...
...overworked au pair, it's murder. Good help is evidently as hard to find as a good jury. Be a stay-at-home parent with The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. It's borderline cheesy, of course, but vaguely ... titillating, and certainly does its disconcerting...
...think it's safe to say that we'll be able to provide the protection we require for the people we protect and still be able to accomodate most if not all of the events of parent's weekend," Sloan said...
There is something heroic in this domestic image. Alone in the dark, facing his fears, the modern-day parent is a rugged individual of a new sort. We would be wrong to think of this sort of person as an unreflective suburbanite, locked into pre-fab group-think. While we may not ride out into the sunset alone anymore, there is a contemporary heroic individualism that deserves our respect...
...image of American individualism is changing from the lone cowboy on the range to the lone parent at a Promise Keeper gathering. New York Times reporter Michael Janofsky describes this tendency in Monday's "At Mass Events, Americans Looking to One Another." Citing the recent Million Woman March to Philadelphia, the gathering of the Promise Keepers and the Million Man March, Janofsky argues that the mass events of today "propose solutions based on changing the individual rather than changing government policy." Throughout the piece, Janofsky stresses the role of the individual in these mass movements...