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...wasn’t able to do in her past and what she would miss in the future. I’ve thought about my father—a man who has dedicated his life to his children’s well-being, regardless of the long hours of thankless toil it required. I still think about the pain he goes through having lost the person he had shared the last 35 years of his life with. I know neither my mother or father thought when they came to the United States from India that life would be easy. Still...
...there any job on earth more thankless than that of the U.N. weapons inspectors? On one side they face the Bush Administration, which persuaded the U.N. Security Council to send inspectors back to Iraq but is openly disdainful of their ability to do the job; on the other stands Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who respects them even less. Last week Baghdad invited the inspectors to return after a four-year absence to search for the weapons of mass destruction Saddam says he doesn't have. But the letter of acceptance added that the Iraqi regime "will also take into consideration...
...going nine games without accumulating any stats whatsoever, fullback Collin Blackburn finally was thrown a pass on Saturday. Blackburn, who reportedly plans to apply for a medical hardship and play a fifth season next year, gained five yards on the play, an unusual bit of glory at the mostly thankless position of Harvard fullback. But sorry, Collin—fullback will probably continue to be a glorified lineman...
...News spent three months around the clock with Boston city workers for a panoramic view of the thankless job of keeping a city afloat. The sparsely narrated episodes let the subjects' own actions tell their sometimes praiseworthy, sometimes embarrassing stories. Highlights include inside looks at an ugly contract dispute between fire fighters and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, at an idealistic but hapless new prosecutor and at a no-nonsense inner-city principal. Boston Public is in reruns, but 24/7 offers a dramatically public Boston...
...resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may have created an unprecedented opportunity to break the logjam. But the extent to which that opportunity is realized may depend, in large part, on how much the Bush administration - and its Arab and Israeli allies - are willing to risk in the traditionally thankless pursuit of Middle East peace...