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...find empanadas and tacos de carnitas. Kids now compete in robotics as well as rabbit husbandry. Grandma's red balloon, which became Dad's Snoopy balloon, is now Junior's SpongeBob balloon. And the carnies now wear uniform shirts (with collars!)--though they're still missing some teeth...
...academics who got there first; Ali has made one futile job-hunting trip to Damascus. Now Jordan and Syria are beginning to turn people back from the border. Ubaid is concerned that it may be years before they can get married. "I will be an old maid, with no teeth, and he will have no hair," she jokes. The alternative, of course, still seems even worse. For lovers in Iraq, happily ever after is only possible somewhere else...
...change of heart was so powerful and so organic that at first I chalked it up to hormones. What else would explain my reaction if he approached while she nursed, which was to bare my teeth and snarl? Soon my ferocious protectiveness soured into tired irritation. He shed on her burp cloths. He bayed as she napped. He developed a taste for diapers. Our relationship deteriorated to a cycle of infractions followed by scoldings. Before I knew it, I had withdrawn from him his exalted former status. In the span of a few months, I had demoted him from...
When you look at the third generation of Kennedy men, much of what remains of a once powerful dynasty is good teeth, good hair and the best public relations a trust fund can buy. Some of the boys grew from being spoiled and bratty--belittling the help, once chasing the cook up a tree at Hickory Hill--into full-blown debauchery, driving fast, drinking hard, club hopping like wild men. Most of this got spun by family retainers into the playful high jinks of a raucous clan. But the escapades got seamier over time and the spinning harder: a joyride...
...Michael as campaign chairman. A year from now, Michael and the Baby Sitter and Joe and the Annulment will have joined Amy and Joey and Donald and Marla in the landfill of tabloid dreck. And to paraphrase Senator Kennedy's speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1980, the teeth still sparkle, the hair is thick, and the dream will never...