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...weekend, my daughter and I, as I read Twilight for the first time, she for the third. It's not 19th century London, but the modern Pacific Northwest is appropriately misty. Here we meet the bright, chaste, passionate heroine Bella and the dark, mysterious and certainly dangerous hero Edward, son of a vampire family that has sworn off human blood but still struggles with the temptation. He has a way of appearing when she's in danger, scooping her into his unnaturally strong arms and carrying her to safety. Suffice it to say, it's like nothing I've read...
...born in Pittsburgh in 1958, the son of a car upholsterer named Norton. Growing up, he was an overweight kid with Coke-bottle glasses, devoted to stamp and coin collecting. He wanted to be rich from a very young age, selling everything from garbage bags to magazine subscriptions door-to-door to make money...
...brother." During the Great Depression, parents would scrape together bus fare and hang a sign that read "Take Me to Boys Town" around their child's neck. Tysheema Brown, the Atlanta woman who drove 1,000 miles to Omaha to drop off her 12-year-old son, had been taken to Boys Town herself as a teenager. She had tried to get a spot for him in a similar Georgia institution for six months and failed. During that long drive she reportedly told her son what was happening; she reasoned later that he would not hate her because she believed...
...back in Lincoln in January "to strike while the iron is hot" when legislators are scheduled to debate privatizing behavioral health services for troubled adolescents. Meanwhile, Boes had good news for Tysheema Brown. The priest said he's working with Georgia alumni to get her housing and find her son a spot, hopefully in Omaha...
...son of a Yemeni-Jewish mother and a Turkish-Muslim father. I grew up in Germany. I met my Indian Hindu wife when I lived in London for some 20 years. I am often asked where I feel I belong. I always used to answer that I am a citizen of the world. I didn't have a better answer as I could never feel true patriotism toward any country. Obama's win has been like an open-armed welcome. Today, if someone asked me where I feel I belong, I would proclaim sincerely: "Ich bin ein Amerikaner!" Gan Amram...