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...next miracle, in other words, may be harder to pull off than the last one. That doesn't mean it won't happen. Consider what, in 1978, constituted a "rich" eligible bachelor in urban China. He had to own a radio; he had to be able to buy his bride a fashionable wristwatch made by a state-owned company no one would ever confuse with Rolex. And he had to commute on the coolest set of wheels available: a bicycle called the Phoenix...
...Motherless Children How ironic that those emigrant Filipina mothers you profile in "The Motherless Generation" [Nov. 24] are in turn often bringing up a generation of motherless kids in rich countries - kids whose mothers return to work before their children are of school-going age; kids who spend long days with Filipina nannies as "surrogate mothers." Few children - rich or poor, in whichever corner of the globe - prefer gifts and toys to the presence of their mothers. In both cases, the mothers' drive to provide for their offspring financially seems to avoid the simplest of facts: parenting cannot be outsourced...
...essay in the magazine of the AARP about the decline of writerly inspiration. “Memories, impressions, and emotions from your first 20 years on earth are most writers’ main material,” he wrote; “little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant. By the age of 40, you have probably mined the purest veins of this precious lode; after that, continued creativity is a matter of sifting the leavings...
...writer the frustrating thing about it is that you can have in your head the words exactly as they need to be, and there’s that awkward gulf between that and what the performer does,” he says.On the other hand, Simon H. Rich ’06-’07—a former president of the Lampoon who is in his second year of writing for SNL—says, “They only put me in front of the camera as a sight gag when they need an awkward-looking, childlike...
...While Obama’s plan for improving education is admirable, his private actions should match his public promises. All the policy initiatives in the world will not fully solve America’s education problem if the rich and powerful are able to flee the public school system into $25,000-a-year private schools. Politicians need to see problems firsthand as parents and PTA members, not by reading statistics. And surely concessions could be made to make a public-school arrangement suitable and safe for both the Obama children and their parents...