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...something that most of them find wholly unacceptable: sacrificing their all-important selves for something larger--the family and, by extension, the next generation. It's time to turn away from the primacy of the self as the most essential element of a meaningful life. MAUREEN BOYLE Falls Church, Va...
Whatever the motivation, many at-home mothers approach parenting with a sense of mission. Heidi Brennan, 47, a former management-training specialist in Arlington, Va., chose to stay home with her five children to shape their values. "No one was going to care more than I was," she says. Johanne Laboy, 33, an M.B.A. living in Cary, N.C., realized her son Austin, 2, would not speak the language of her native Puerto Rico--or be able to communicate with his grandmother--unless she stayed home and spoke to him in Spanish. "For him to know Spanish will be important...
...some are discovering that the picture can sometimes be less rosy than it seems. Just ask the Harvard graduates who were hired at the end of the last academic year by MicroStrategy, a software company in Vienna, Va.--at least a dozen, one graduate estimates...
...Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., was integrated, and the usual ugly protests ensued. Perhaps the bitterest blow to the school's racist spirit was that its popular football coach, Bill Yoast (Will Patton), was demoted to defensive coordinator and replaced by a black man, Herman Boone (Denzel Washington). How Boone, a tough-love sort of guy, got his racially mixed team playing so well that it went on to an undefeated season and the state championship is the substance of Remember the Titans...
...That history goes back to Anglo-inspired exclusionary acts against Chinese and Japanese immigrants and the ferocity of the Pacific, Korean and Vietnam wars. It remains a living memory. Alice Young, a lawyer in a high-powered international-law firm, recalls a day in school in lily-white McLean, Va., in the early '60s. "They had a film on communism, and we were all sitting in our chairs watching it, and the communist happened to be a Chinese-looking person, and at the end of the film, it said if you see anyone who looks suspicious, please call your...