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...complex, and families differ in countless ways. Yet elder-care specialists see common patterns emerge among siblings as the death of a parent looms. One such dynamic is a renewed competition for their parents' love and favor. "You become needy children again, not getting enough of the goods," says Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford, a professor of psychology at the University of Indianapolis...
...harbored grudges and rarely saw one another. But in 1985, after Margie had a serious accident, her siblings teamed up to tend to her through months of rehab. The three of them talked through their childhood conflicts. Margie was their father's favorite, Barbara was their mother's, and Victoria felt like a neglected middle child. The women acknowledged those realities but also showed one another that there was a flip side to being a favorite, including a larger burden of parental expectations to fulfill. Looking back on their childhood, Bedford says, "I realized that there was in some ways...
Starbucks isn't the only nonmusic company to think CDs will boost the bottom line. Victoria's Secret, which started the trend with a line of classical CDs back in 1988, recently sold a Bob Dylan compilation in its lingerie shops. Target is selling an exclusive EP from singer Rob Thomas, and Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores are serving up a special disc from country stars Alison Krauss and Union Station. Pottery Barn has put out more than 70 different titles, with music touted among its top-grossing product categories. The Gap, Restoration Hardware, Lane Bryant and Eddie Bauer have...
...tikanga (Maori culture) and kaupapa (philosophy or plan). TV hosts open and close their shows with haere mai (welcome) and ka kite ano (see you later). Acquaintances say they're flat out with mahi (work) and have a hui (meeting) to get to. John Macalister, a writing teacher at Victoria University of Wellington, returned to New Zealand in 1997 after 16 years away and felt like a foreigner. Forced to look up one te reo (Maori) word after another, he started jotting them down. The list "just continued to grow," he says. "After a while, I felt I couldn...
...words have a richer spread of meanings: "Aroha, for example, covers more than love. It also has the sense of affection, warmth and goodwill" - so people will talk of a crowd on a cold night being warmed by aroha. But word choice is also a matter of politics, says Victoria University linguist Winifred Bauer. "Sometimes it's not that there isn't an English word, but people will choose to use the Maori word." If they are Maori, "they're expressing their Maoriness. They're saying, Yes, I am talking English, but I am a Maori. This is also done...