Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...because my father is dead now, and I always knew I would have to commemorate him. He was a writer and I am a writer; it feels like a duty to describe our case--a literary curiosity which is also just another instance of father and son...
...surprise his faithful readers. The portrait of his father, in his happy prime and then in sad decline, is fascinating and moving. "When he made you laugh," Amis writes, "he sometimes made you laugh--not continuously, but punctually--for the rest of your life." How fortunate that this son is, like his father, a splendid writer...
Even George H.W. Bush--the patriarch of the namesakes--is getting into the swing of things. Sources tell TIME that the former President, who once famously referred to his Mexican-American grandchildren, including George P., as "the little brown ones," recently urged his son's campaign to hold a national Hispanic event aimed at luring Hispanics away from the Democrats. The way things are going, the Republican Convention will be a fiesta de la familia...
...current commerce secretary's last name (he's the son of legendary Chicago mayor/ boss/ kingmaker Richard Daley) implies all that it should about Daley. TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty calls him "a total nuts-and-bolts political mind, with a very clear sense of what works and what doesn't." Toting none of Coelho's ethical baggage, Daley's also fit for surrogate duties in front of the cameras, and, one assumes, a nicer guy to have around the Nashville digs. As Tumulty says, "the stylistic differences couldn't be greater." We read...
...father, I have to wonder what kind of man wishes this on his son," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "Hafez Assad has condemned his son to a life of sleepless nights and constant pressure, always looking over your shoulder because somebody wants to kill you." And it's not as if 34-year-old Bashar has exactly coveted the job, telling anyone who'd listen until a few months ago that he harbored no presidential ambitions. But in a scenario eerily reminiscent of India's Gandhi family - in which Rajiv found greatness thrust upon him after Indira...