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...Hoya can't match that kind of familial dysfunction, even though he imported some of it for a while. Floyd Sr., torn about training De La Hoya to bludgeon his son and unhappy with his salary, split with De La Hoya in January. He is now back advising Junior, to the dismay of head trainer Roger, his brother, who, incidentally, just finished a six-month jail stretch for battery. The brothers aren't speaking. "Why would I have to be concerned about my brother's thoughts or feelings?" asks Roger during a Mayweather workout in Las Vegas. He is wearing...
...natural constituencies. After radio host Don Imus got fired for his controversial remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team, Clinton accepted a long-standing invitation to speak on the campus about women's equality. And both she and Obama are aggressively courting African-American voters, who are torn between their loyalty to the Clintons and their excitement over the prospect of the first black President. As Obama was telling his life story during a recent appearance with Al Sharpton in New York, Sharpton's cell phone rang. "Is that Hillary calling?" Obama joked. "Breaking my flow...
...Paris though the centuries-old cobblestones of Montmartre may be, they are being removed as part of a council project aimed at turn this historic quarter of Paris into the city's largest "Green Village." To make way for wider sidewalks, cycle lanes and new scooter parks, diggers have torn up chunks of some of Montmartre's most famous thoroughfares, unsentimentally replacing them with uniform layers of tarmac...
...accurately and succinctly portrayed the quandary faced by a good number of Asian fathers who are torn between career and family [April 16]. The dilemma is accentuated when both husband and wife are working. But there are ways to circumvent this problem. For a start, technology has allowed employers to be more flexible about when and where employees work. By cutting time spent traveling and sitting in dreary meetings, dads and moms can share more time with their children. And perhaps couples should resist the tendency to form nuclear families and go back to living in good old extended families...
...between a dad and two babies certainly did suck. But things could have been a lot worse—I mean, Kurt could have been the obese father of triplets trying to squeeze into two seats. And it’s not like I was flying to a war-torn country or my mother’s funeral. I was going back to school at Harvard, and the people sitting next to me weren’t so bad after all. So basically, I promise I’m gonna stop bitching, because in general, things are pretty damn good...