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Entering Wilda Randolph's town home on Mass. Ave. in northwest Cambridge, visitors see that her children are growing up with a television, telephone and a stocked refrigerator...
...when Randolph arrived in Massachusetts 20 years ago, she had hardly anything. Arriving with her sick mother-in-law in the middle of winter, she spoke no English, had no job and was far from the warm shores of her native Haiti...
...says she has no plans to return to Haiti, and she is even planning to bring her mother to Cambridge and she hopes someday that her siblings will join her. And while Randolph's story mirrors the hard-scrabble existence for Haitians in Cambridge, political turmoil at home ensures that this recent immigrant wave is here for the long haul...
Many of the early Presidents were not especially happy in the White House. Thomas Jefferson found his sojourn there a chore, and he called the presidency itself "a splendid misery." The first child born in the White House was Jefferson's grandson, James Madison Randolph, delivered in an upstairs bedroom in 1806. The second birth was a reminder of the nation's grim legacy: a child born in the basement quarters to two of Jefferson's slaves, Fanny and Eddy. No name is recorded for the child, who died before reaching age 2. The child's funeral was probably...
Growing up, I tried to be a humble Yankees fan, preferring the yeoman efforts of Willie Randolph to the braggadocio of Reggie Jackson. I had a terrific vocabulary as a kid. The Yankees gave me confidence that I sorely needed as a bookish, freakishly shy child who was secretly desired by all the girls in his class...