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...isn’t always the idea of the candidate but [may come] from a well-meaning parent or friend,” Fitzsimmons says...
...investment to less than $30 million. The job cutbacks, he points out, have simply brought Miramax back to October 2001 levels. "We just didn't need to have all that staff around," he says. According to Disney CEO Michael Eisner, the Weinsteins still enjoy strong support from their parent company. "They may get under people's skin, including ours sometimes," says Eisner, "but the pain is worth it." Moreover, Talk Miramax Books, which is still run by former Talk magazine editor Tina Brown, has been successful. In a long-shot scenario, the publishing division will eventually cover Harvey's magazine...
During his thirteenth summer, David experiences the growing rift between his parents not by watching them together, but by spending time with each parent alone, observing the loneliness and the growing estrangement of the two people connected only...
...report drew attention to the rise of single-parent families and other evidence of breakdown of the traditional family—arguing this was “the fundamental source of the weakness of the Negro community at the present time...
...silly. Many American colleges happily acknowledge that once applicants reach a certain threshold of academic ability, they blend many attributes to obtain a class: geographic and racial variety, athletic and artistic ability, whether Mom or Dad is an alum. That last criterion is not so crass as accepting a parent's proffered check, but the difference is only of degree, not kind. In 20 years or 50, loyalty is expected to breed generosity. Usually it does. Like stealing bread and sleeping under bridges, Rev. Platt's error - linking the quid too closely to the quo - is one much easier...