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Early in Emmanuel Dongala’s Little Boys Come from the Stars, Matapari, the young Congolese protagonist, confides, “Honestly, I was almost never born. Maman left the hospital with me still in her womb.” As the youngest of triplets, baby Matapari, whose name means “trouble,” is an anomaly in his village. The midwife and local amateur mystic suspects he is a vengeful ancestor reincarnate, while the town priest stages an exorcism on the baby...
...There’s no Cambridge mansion or Kennedy-esque legacy in this politico’s background. Swift is from the western Mass. town of North Adams and is the daughter of a teacher and a plumber. She’s won and lost political races, becoming the youngest woman ever to be elected to the state senate (she was 25), althoughy she lost a 1996 race for Congress...
...entire family finally comes to town, and the plot, as the cliché says, thickens. Junior, Ray Bud’s unemployed brother, has been cheating on his wife Charisse, and neglecting his three wild kids. Aunt Marguerite, on the other hand, is trying to reform her youngest son and prevent him from going to the state penitentiary like his brother. Junior and Ray Bud cannot overcome their sibling rivalry, which is made evident by the WWF-style wrestling match they engage in after arguing about how much money to spend on the funeral...
Congress' second youngest representative, Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.), spoke to a bemused crowd at the Arco Forum last night, imploring audience members to put a punch back in the political process...
...those rejecting the rat race to spend more time with their families, perhaps the most famous is Peter Lynch. While the 47-year-old investment superstar was busy building the Fidelity Magellan mutual fund into a $13 billion behemoth, his youngest daughter got to be seven years old, and he felt he hardly knew her. Last spring he stunned Wall Street when he decided to give up his 14-hour workdays. With a nest egg estimated at $50 million, Lynch could well afford to quit. But many ordinary people evidently felt a connection with what he did, for he received...