Word: sonly
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Reading the papers last week, I came across an intriguing story about the first reunion of Thomas Jefferson's descendants since a high-tech paternity test established that our third President fathered at least one son by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings. It got me thinking about my own white relatives and my strained relationship with them...
...white people are scared to find out who their relatives are." That's silly. Hemings' descendants are not only upstanding citizens, a lot of them aren't even "black." For example, there are members of the Westerinen family of Staten Island, N.Y., who trace their lineage to Hemings' youngest son, who moved to Ohio after being freed from slavery and started passing for white. Dorothy Westerinen, who has known all this for only a few months, says, "I'm very proud to share a black lineage." I'm so proud of her, I'm tempted to buy her an N.A.A.C.P...
...promise of "no new taxes" in 1988 as one of the greatest betrayals in Republican Party history. They will also compare George W.'s warm relations with Texas Democrats to his father's "accommodationist" approach toward the other party on Capitol Hill. And they are already suggesting that the son has got as far as he has only by using his father's connections: Tennessee's Lamar Alexander pointedly insists that the presidency cannot be "inherited." The Bush response, by spokeswoman Karen Hughes: "The Governor is very proud of his father, but he's a different person...
...Damned (formerly Trailer Park) would appear as a contestant on the game show Quacks like a Duck." Or, in one of the book's funniest running motifs, the transplantation of a pig liver into the female protagonist's father, a Hollywood hustler of exceptional charm and exceptional coarseness. (Son-in-law to daughter: "You had a whole childhood to get nauseated by show biz. I was vulgarity-deprived...
...Stratford, Conn., says he would not have considered uprooting his family from their home in Alamogordo, N.M., if the relocation package hadn't been right. Among other things, Sikorsky provided Johnson and his wife Donna, 35, with detailed information on child-care options available for their 18-month-old son Jacob. They were given the qualifications, services and costs for all day-care centers and baby-sitting services within a 15-mile radius of the new home they are purchasing in Milford. "The day-care center is gorgeous; it's one of the nicest I have ever seen," says Johnson...