Word: dad
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...week ago Saturday, the Governor could be found with Dad at the Ryder Cup golf tournament, having skipped the tedium of the California Republican Party's convention. To spur the American team on to its jingoistic, fist-pumping victory, Bush gave a pep talk in which he compared the brave golfers fighting to win a noisome corporate-infested sporting event to the brave men who fought to save the Alamo--the use of the profound in service of the mundane...
Korine, who wrote the scabrous Kids, then made on his own the widely praised and reviled Gummo, had already planned his new film--the largely improvised story of a schizophrenic (Scottish actor Ewen Bremner), his bullying dad (Werner Herzog) and pregnant sister (Chloe Sevigny)--when Von Trier & Co. suggested he make it under Dogme strictures. "I liked the idea of it being a rescue action from the elevation of cosmetics," he says, "the idea of not hiding behind the trickery." Bremner found that the stripped-down system let him focus on his craft: "I don't have to reserve...
...believed in God just before she was fatally shot last April 20. The question may have been put instead to VALEEN SCHNURR, 18, who lay wounded under another table. She replied yes, she says. As the gunman reloaded, he asked, "Why?" "Because I do believe, and my mom and dad taught me to." The gunman then walked away. Witnesses may have confused Cassie's and Valeen's voices...
...world with a shortage of good day care and an abundance of single-parent and two-career households, grandparents willing to care for their grandchildren are highly prized. In the old days, such care was generally rendered by Grandma. Today the social forces that produced the stay-at-home dad have introduced the caregiver granddad. Peter Gross, a retired law professor, picks up grandsons Paul, 3, and Mark, 18 months, every weekday morning at 8:15 and cares for them in his San Francisco home until 6 p.m. "It's a very close, intense relationship that's at the center...
...dysfunctional parents, grief at losing the grandparent role, and anger at the adult child who won't parent. And there is the simple reality of age. "I'm not 25 anymore," says a 51-year-old grandmother. "Physically, I can't do the things that a mom and a dad can do.We have the love, but we don't have the youth...