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...general manager for Allied Signal (now Honeywell) in Shanghai. The management job came with a mid-six-figure income, but it also required David, 45, to travel almost constantly, averaging 80 hours a month on planes. In 1995 David, his wife Elly, now 42, and their three children, Letitia, 14, Lawrence, 12, and Lennifer, 10, moved to China, hoping David would be able to spend more time with the family. But he wasn't, and the effects began to show. Letitia and Lennifer stopped doing homework, and Lawrence started getting into fights. "I was concerned about the kids' issues...
...spent quiet summers after his father was gone. It would have been too much for the country to watch Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bury her son, but she was there, nonetheless, in her daughter Caroline. "It was as if Jackie were orchestrating these ceremonies," said Kennedy social secretary Letitia Baldrige...
...called Letitia Baldrige, social secretary of the Kennedy White House and author of books on manners, and she politely but firmly set me straight on how children should address adults. "For children the parents of their friends should be addressed as Mr. and Mrs.," she said. "A woman in your situation should be Miss or Ms., followed by your last name. Even if your name is different from your child's, it can be memorized." Ms. Baldrige thinks that "Miss Amy" is pleasingly Southern and old-fashioned but is not strictly correct...
...adult insists that she be addressed by her first name, though, the child should comply. Ms. Baldrige then suggested that parents like me should grow up immediately, and politely ask to be addressed correctly. Before we hung up, I had one more question. "May I call you Letitia?" I asked. "Certainly," she said. "Everybody does...
...gets up there and treats Africa as one political entity, and it's not," said Letitia Abu-Danso, an employee of the Christian Science Monitor and conference participant...