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...didn't make it: the 100 million rural inhabitants--including his own parents--who have fled exorbitant taxes and dwindling agricultural prices and flooded the cities in search of work. Those migrants are what Li calls "ghosts in the city." "They have built the cities that China is proud of," he says, "but they are barely treated as human beings...
...relationship with him. He played one of the Nubian slaves in a version of Caesar and Cleopatra, that sort of thing. In high school once, I saw a picture of my father in Look magazine, performing in a play by Lillian Smith called Strange Fruit. I was quite proud of that...
...Paralympics, where, a player says, "We're not going for a hug. We're going for a f______ gold medal." But in defeat, a father's hug is some solace. "You're the best son anybody could ever have," sobs one dad. "You make me so proud." So there is crying in quad rugby. For parents, and viewers...
...Kathleen should become their mother's guardian. Wittstock assumed guardianship in 2004. By that time, their mother was living alone and unkempt in her condo with no food in the house and the gas turned off. Now Mom is safely ensconced in an assisted-living home, and Wittstock is proud of what she accomplished with her sisters. "Our relationships are not always great," she says, "but we work...
...South Central Los Angeles to help create a frenetic, feel-good style of dance called clowning. Missionaries of optimism, they go about, one clowner says, "making smiles where there were no smiles, laughter where there was no laughter," and turning the meanest Los Angeles turf into what one proud mom calls Hollywatts...