Word: sons
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...shreddings had already contributed to at least 46 deaths, an estimate that climbed to more than 100 by year's end, as both Ford and Firestone came under attack. What did they know, when did they know it? Answers came too late for Victor Rodriguez, whose 10-year-old son was killed when a Firestone tire on their Explorer blew in San Antonio, Texas (inset...
...Queen Elizabeth II for the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, Princess Anne and Prince Andrew--who in the days and weeks ahead would turn 100, 70, 50 and 40, respectively--Prince William spent his 18th birthday studying for finals at Eton. With his passage into young manhood, Di's son is fair prey for paparazzi...
...doomed ballgames, his deep awareness of death, his stoicism in the face of life's disasters - because he was willing to admit that just to keep on being Charlie Brown was an exhausting and painful process. "You don't know what it's like to be a barber's son," Charlie Brown tells Schroeder. He remembers how it felt to see tears running down his father's cheeks when his dad read letters in the newspaper attacking barbers for raising the price of a haircut. He recalls how hard his father worked to give his family a respectable life...
SCHULZ DID. A SHY, TIMID BOY, a barber's son, born on November 26, 1922, "Sparky" Schulz - nicknamed for the horse in "Barney Google"- had grown up from modest beginnings in St Paul, Minnesota, to realize his earliest dream of creating a newspaper comic strip. The only child of devoted parents, neither of whom had gone further in school than the third grade, Schulz linked the happy unsophistication of his childhood home with the ideal of a dignified, ordinary life that he forever after tried to return to. "There are times," he wrote at 58, "when I would like...
...deny an incoming Republican president his pet project, as long as Bush is both sensible and polite about it. After putting Clinton (and himself) in the Fiscal Policy Hall of Fame, though, he's not going to rubber-stamp a tax cut because George Bush's son asks him to, even if young George sends mutual friends to do the asking. Greenspan has a legacy of his own to worry about...