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...lean in close, conspiratorially, Sonia Ho may just let slip a secret she keeps about her son David. She will speak in a hush, as if to elude some spy's eavesdropping from behind the potted palm. But she badly wants to divulge her information. Thus, slightly abashed but nonetheless proud, she will confide, "He's kind of a genius, you know. I'm not supposed to say that, but it's true...
...nature, but his spirit is startling: a fierce competitiveness that is manifested as a subtle calm, a passionate transcendence. It is evident in his gestures. His fine-fingered hands do not punch out arguments; rather they escort logic through tangles of confusion, gently prodding reason his way. Perhaps Sonia Ho is right to be hushed, for her son's genius emanates from the depths of his family's experiences, and it is not quite Asian to make a display of one's legacies. But she is also right to be proud, for this is America...
...degree in engineering. A translator for U.S. troops in China during World War II, he instructed his wife that their sons were to stick to Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese and not learn English until they got to America for a better chance of speaking it without an accent. As Sonia Ho recalls in careful but imperfect English, "When we first come to U.S., we don't know any words. David would come home from school and say, 'I don't know what they talking about.' I'd say, 'Oh, what are we going to do?'" Says David: "We hadn...
...Judge Sonia ("Sonny") Klonsky inherits the county's case against Nile Eddgar and soon wishes she hadn't. Not only has she known--25 years earlier, in California--all three members of the Eddgar family; she also learns that Nile's defense lawyer is Hobie Tuttle, a former Black Panther and another old pal from her flower-child youth in California. Worse still, she spots her live-in boyfriend from those days among the reporters covering the trial. He is Seth Weissman, who is now, under an assumed name, a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist...
...were able to buy this as a limited equity co-op, we would do a better job of administration," said Sonia E. Andujar, a tenant and organizer with the Friends of Craigie Circle, the group behind the proposal...