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...zeal to share memories and history drives many grandparents' choice of destinations. For Joyce Hall, a Familyhostel tour of France meant a stop at the Normandy beaches, where she shared childhood memories of World War II with granddaughter Saya, 11, of Tampa, Fla. "All my uncles went off to war," she recalls. "My brother and I played commandos, and we had Victory gardens and war bonds at Christmas. Our next-door neighbor's son was killed on D-day. Saya and I talked about the fact that our freedom was bought at a high price. I think...
...real and they are here and we are following vigilantly their every move, their every moral justification. They present an actual, unfathomable moral gap that cannot be satisfactorily described by means of some direct and simple analogy with our own moral environment. Yardstick hates these terrorists probably with more zeal than our collective moral outrage justifies...
...KidsArt, then, represents more an insular and self-congratulating exercise on the part of 60 professional contemporary artists, than a bona fide attempt to imbue young people with a zeal for artistic creation. Its incorporation into any sort of pedagogical schedule will be tricky indeed, with few children able (or willing) to pay $50 for a coloring book...
African Americans are among America's most observant Muslims. While Yvonne Haddad of Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding estimates the fraction of immigrants who attend mosque at a mere 10%, many American blacks, with converts' zeal, memorize verse after verse of the Koran and are extremely serious about Islamic injunctions against premarital sex, abortion and alcohol. Most also shun MTV, Hollywood films, hip-hop and dancing. Such social conservatism also translates politically: the tally of Bush votes among African-American Muslims was 25% higher than in black America as a whole. The community is thoroughly patriotic...
Behind the scenes, the successes came at an enormous price. It was the familiar yet sad tale of the father whose zeal for success came at the expense of affection for his children. The stages of the world were the playgrounds of the Jackson youth, the screaming fans the closest thing to true affection. The arrested development of Michael Jackson had begun—a lost boy locked in stasis, searching ever more keenly for the innocence and magic of a childhood that was denied...