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...hardship these parents and kids have in reaching that kind of understanding reflects more than just the usual generational divide. There is also a cultural crevasse larger than that faced by immigrants' kids whose families at least share a Western civilization that makes American customs a little less alien. Sam Chang's Korean parents were horrified when he got involved in student government at his high school in Phoenix, Ariz. They viewed his extracurricular activities as frivolous diversions from the main goal of his getting into a top college. "When I came home freshman year as president, they...
DIED. LOU RAWLS, 72, Grammy-winning singer who performed doo-wop with high school pal Sam Cooke before recording a long list of soulful tunes for broader audiences in genres from jazz to gospel; of lung and brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Making more than 50 albums over 40 years, the man who Frank Sinatra said had the "silkiest chops in the singing game" topped the charts with R&B tunes (Love Is a Hurtin' Thing), pre-rap monologues (Tobacco Road) and, during the height of the 1970s disco craze, the rich, sophisticated "Philadelphia sound" typified on his signature megahit...
...sadness and anger. Family members moaned, clutching their foreheads and stomachs. One man jumped in his pickup truck, drove through the mud and gravel and nearly rammed a news reporter and sheriff?s cruiser, before throwing the truck in reverse and roaring off. "Oh, I am angry now,? said Sam Lantz, whose son-in-law Marty Bennett was killed. ?They lied...
...people who are making decisions,” he said. “I’m glad that students approach the survey with a critical perspective and voice their complaints, because that’s the way things get improved.” —Staff writer Sam Teller can be reached at steller@fas.harvard.edu...
...Year's resolutions? I'm giving up smoking. I had a terrible incident in a Mommy and Me class. Sam, my son, had got a pack of Marlboro Lights out of my handbag and was carrying them through the class. Had he been carrying a small shotgun, it would have been less shocking...