Word: sonly
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That last line is something of a refrain for Max, who sends his 11-year-old son to parochial school because the public school is a disaster. "Every four years, here's another guy in pants and a jacket telling us he's the education President. Am I right, or am I right? The Republicans were in charge for 12 years, and you couldn't send your kids to public school. The Democrats take over for eight years; nothing changes. Now George Bush is going to fix the public schools? Same guy who went to Andover and Yale?" Max throws...
...mail to W. "Always positive, always hopeful," she says. A while back she thought he looked nervous on the screen, and not wishing to make a direct suggestion to relax, she whispered it to one of his aides. Within a few hours the phone rang. It was her son twitting her for being on his case. Leaks everywhere...
...President is going to stay close to his rocky shore in Kennebunkport, Me., in this campaign and pick up the phone when his son calls, which is almost every day. Some of the media will probably go nuts believing the deposed king is in a sinister power push for glory. But as much as anything, the talk will be about how the striped bass are running off the Maine rocks and how much water has collected in the new seven-acre lake built on W.'s Texas ranch. "It's beautiful," injects Barbara. "It has a river running through...
...Nothing," he claims, "will diminish the father-son relationship. Nothing. And that is true, not just with W. but with our other four kids as well." He is struggling to stay out of the limelight for his son's sake. Of course, he agrees with the idea that Al Gore is Bill Clinton's "boy," pampered and propped up and corrected by Clinton, but, O.K., politics is sometimes unfair, and that's the deal...
...with some friends to a restaurant where the waitresses sing as they deliver the food. Xuan ducked work in order to spend time with his soon-to-be wife--his first holiday since 1996. Nhung was onstage in the Long Phung Culture Center, singing the songs of Trinh Cong Son to a rapt audience. And Huy was back in the Hot Club, coaxing another new act, looking for that smile...