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...ever lose her credibility. Although enormously self-absorbed, the John Cheever we get here made a very positive impact on his daughter: "We had wonderful times. A simpler way to put this is that my father loved his children. The three of us were, as he said, 'the roof and settle' of his existence. As individuals we often displeased him, but as a unit we were cherished and indispensable...
...round hut, made of roughhewn wood posts and a conical thatched roof, is known as zawya. In the Afar language, that means the house of the dead. Although it is not long after dawn, 26 bodies have already been wrapped in filthy burlap shrouds on the earthen floor. The air is sickly sweet with the smell of decay. Inside, in accordance with Muslim custom, Hussein Yussuf is tenderly washing the shriveled body of a three-year-old boy. "This is the first water this child has had for a long, long time," says the 60-year...
...social programs of the '60s were the right thing at the time, but now it's as if we're afraid to change even one piece of decoration on the house for fear someone will start yelling that we're trying to tear the roof...
Before razing the building over the old subway exit, the Perini Construction Company the firm which handled the MBTA reconstruction, saved the structure's distinctive copper roof for eventual repair Perini duplicated the original building over the subway station and topped it off with the refurbished roof in accordance with its contract with the MBIA...
Although Rajiv and Sanjay and their families lived together under their mother's roof, there was occasional friction between the two dissimilar brothers. Once, when a Western friend asked Rajiv why he did not simply move elsewhere, he seemed startled and replied, "I could never have done that to Mummy." Later on, after Mrs. Gandhi was returned to office from her post-emergency defeat, Rajiv is said to have taken a dim view of the oldtime politicians who were again fawning over his mother and his brother. "All the old gang is back," he once remarked with a touch...