Word: sonly
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...about mental illness isn't easy. Gore has at times even seemed reluctant to share her saga. She refuses to name the medication she took, and she gives few details about the nature of her depression, saying mainly that it emerged after a car accident that nearly killed her son...
...that was long ago and far away, in a country different from our own. But there is a convergence of new books on the period, with fresh deceptions and clarifying truths. Tony Hiss's The View from Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir is a tender hagiography that makes a claim for his father's innocence--a case so heartbreakingly sweet that one struggles (though unsuccessfully) to join in the son's self-deception. William F. Buckley Jr., who as a young conservative in the 1950s was a friend to both Chambers and McCarthy, gives his version of McCarthy...
RELATION TO COMMUNIST IDEOLOGUE: Son of Nikita...
Parents and schools can guard against harassment by not tolerating it. Give your daughter the strength to say no, loudly--as LaShonda Davis did. And if you have a son who is struggling to understand what is acceptable behavior toward girls, Nan Stein says, run the Mom Test on him. "If you overhear your son talking about girls in a trashy way, remind him, 'That's me you're talking about.' If he thinks it's hilarious to snap a girl's bra, ask him if he would have done it with his mother in the room...
Daniels has always been comfortable with falsetto--the son of two South Carolina voice teachers, he warbled soprano arias as a party trick in college--but it was not until his last year at the University of Michigan that it occurred to him to start using it in earnest. After a string of bad performances in 1992 threw him into "a pretty horrible depression," he told a psychotherapist about what he called his "other voice." She replied that both voices came from the same person. Within days he realized his true identity as a singer; just five years later...