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...think my parents were the mortar between the bricks as far as the family goes," says Paul Kane, 39. Seven years ago, he and his three siblings lost both parents within six months of each other. "After they died, we, as individuals, had to make more effort to get together," he explains. "There wasn't that scaffolding anymore, that structure within the family that had given direction to things for 40, 50 years...
...physician in Missoula, Mont., and author of Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life, says intolerance is institutionalized. "What are most leave policies for loss of a parent?" he asks. "Three days? In the workplace, people expect you to grieve for a week and then get on with it." DeBerry says too many people think grief is something to move past. "Grieving comes and goes just like the waves in the ocean," he explains. "Do we ever get over missing someone we love? The goal is not to get over it or recover from...
...whines about being deluged with political ads is a crybaby who does not deserve to live in the greatest country on earth. Complaining about having a disproportionate voice in choosing the leader of the world's only superpower? Being feared and courted? Cry me a river, pal. You'll get your hemorrhoid-cream commercials back on Hollywood Squares soon enough. (Those automated phone calls, though, are indeed tools of the devil--but we'll get to that later...
...mother Barbara for Bush; and for Gore, Barbra Streisand, Stephen King and Ed Asner. The Democrats alone planned to make 40 million phone calls in the last 10 days of the campaign. (No word on how many smashed phones electronics stores have been asked to replace.) "Phone messages get more attention than other ads," says Jamieson. "If people agree with what they hear, they play it again and again for their friends." And you just know that folks like that must have tons of friends...
...billion-dollar question is whether the last-minute ads make any difference. Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University, says that in the past two elections, Bill Clinton did himself far more good with early ads. "The effectiveness of advertising," he says, "probably diminishes the closer you get to the election itself." As if you Michiganders didn't know that already...