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...television set should not be a baby-sitter, nor should it be a parent. It shouldn't replace the institution of a family. Nowadays, though, working parents tend to give television responsibilities it shouldn't have. More and more, they rely on television to take their places at home...
JAPANESE AMERICANS marry non-Japanese Americans about 65% of the time, an out- marriage rate so high that since 1981 the number of babies born in the U.S. with one white parent has exceeded the number with two Japanese parents...
...years ago, Thongthiraj has posted a perfect grade-point average of 4.0 at UCLA. She hopes to go on to win a master's degree and a Ph.D., with the eventual aim of teaching women's and Asian- American studies at the university level. Her story sounds like every parent's dream come true, but it is hardly unique. Around the country, young people of Asian descent seem to embody the tongue-in-cheek demographics of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, where "all the children are above average." Working-world Asians, meanwhile, have produced a veritable galaxy of stellar performers...
Taking advantage of the newly enacted legislation, some of the supposed victims have successfully brought civil and even criminal actions against members of their own families. Juries have awarded them damages, and in a few cases the accused parent has been sentenced to jail -- based entirely on the recovered memory of his adult offspring...
Anyway, Arno is pursued ineptly by the Florida Mob and its bumbling parent organization in Italy, and also by his mistress Joyce and a U.S. marshal named Raylan Givens. Arno, who's 66, is thinking of trading in Joyce, who's about 40, for a younger tootsie, although maybe not; she still looks pretty good, and he hasn't decided. Straight-shooting Raylan's determined to find Arno, save Joyce from peril and foil the evildoers, and by page 256, it all works out. Always has in Leonard's quirky tales; always will...