Word: dad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well, my mom went to college with Skip Gates...no, wait, that was my dad. My mom's roommate dropped out freshman year to sing with Carole King. Her daughter went to high school with me. As did the senator's daughter. Which senator? All of them...
...frosh weekend began and ended dismally. Upon arrival I quickly shooed my dad away, determined to have a stab at college self-sufficiency. After calmly navigating the mess of paperwork, "warm fuzzies" and eager parents at the admissions office, I gratefully received my room assignment. At the time, the word "Currier" was just a name on paper--it did not signify "the Quad." My host had left me a message: I could drop off my things in her room but she wouldn't be there. Several inquiries and two wrong-turns later I found myself at the entrance to Currier...
...told my dad that even though I hated every moment of the weekend, I would definitely go: The tour-guide had great sunglasses. A shallow rationale, but then again, pre-frosh is all about engaging in the superficial: People trying out new "college personalities," judging the climate, and engaging in five-second conversations about whether or not you'll decide to come...
...intense alienation and isolation, combined with easy access to guns and a culture that teaches kids, in everything from movies to foreign policy, that violence is a valid means of resolving problems." The isolation of the latchkey kid is even more intense in the suburbs. "When Mom and Dad aren't home much and the extended family of the past is gone, kids are left to the mercies of a peer culture shaped by popular culture," says TIME senior writer Richard Lacayo. "Whiplashed from 'South Park' and 'Jerry Springer' to playing Mortal Kombat on Nintendo desensitizes ordinary kids to violence...
...grew up in a family that read and respected TIME--notwithstanding the fact that his dad worked for U.S. News & World Report. "Returning to TIME as its publisher is a dream come true," says McCarrick, 49. "I wake up in the morning and rub my eyes, thinking it can't really have happened." While his impressive record at LIFE made Ed a logical candidate for the TIME job, it was other things that won him the prize. "Edward's got his life in balance," says Pat. "His family, his church and TIME are what's important--and in that order...