What did you do in the communist era, Dad? Don't ask, my child
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They confuse Stalin with Hitler, echo their parents' nostalgia for a supposedly "golden" age and think the worst part of the era was not being able to travel freely.
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We  had been talking about it for at least 10 years. I would say, "Dad, you really should buy a computer. Nobody uses typewriters anymore."
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Tycho:  When we were working on our first serious comic project, a comic about angels in high-school that would probably have made us wealthy beyond mortal imaginings, we got into our first real fight about religion.  Shaking with rage, he essentially threw me out of his house.  He called me up a few hours later to play Duke, but still.  We never talked about the comic again.  We try never to discuss anything of substance if we can help it, though we do allow an annual fracas as a gift to one another.  Oh, and here's a Gabe tip:  never end the Lord's Prayer with "Psyche."  Never.
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com Staff | October 14, 2004. Not since Steve Garvey has a question of fatherhood been so prevalent in a baseball environment. âWhoâs Your Daddy?
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QUESTION: Good morning. Sir, does it bother you that there's a perception out there that your administration has been one that favors big business and wealthy individuals? And what can you do to overcome that, sir?
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Nazi-era board games are being auctioned this week, including a game in which points were given for bombing UK cities. But what were British children playing during WWII?
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Transition 2006: We mourn performers, politicians, two photographers, two great economists. (And to a pair of tyrants: don't let the door hit you on your way out.)
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PRAGUE -- Ronald Reagan used it to reach out to the Soviets during the Cold War. Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's Solidarity movement, likened it to the sun lighting the earth. Rock band R.E.M. immortalized it in a cynical hit song.
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my father was in World War II, as a Navy radarman in the Aleutian Islands. And my mother was a county president of the American Legion Auxiliary.
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Question: Lennox, you said last week you are happy to be out boxing. What do you do now? How do you spend your day? Lewis: For me, just sorting out my life really.
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Tsezar Kats thought it was a Soviet parade as he marched with Jews out to Ukraine's Babi Yar ravine in 1941, but the absence of balloons and red Soviet flags puzzled the 4-year-old.     Then he saw the piles of ...Comment
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Children turned on parents, students denounced their teachers and Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed "To rebel is justified" -- the Cultural Revolution was a defining, if terrifying, experience for many Chinese.
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Life & style: On the 40th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality, we revisit the appallingly repressive atmosphere of the Fifties and Sixties.
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I asked my 3-year-old daughter what she'd do when she was a grown-up lady. The first thing she said was, "Paint my nails." I asked what else. "Get a box of tools." That's my girl!
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Comment is free: Jeremy Langmead: For too long, we have kowtowed to youth. Hail the new age of suits and pipes
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The call came one evening a few weeks ago. No major crisis. Just a call from a freshman in his first semester of college, looking for some homeland security from a parent. Dennis Wolff picked up the phone and heard his son Matt say, "Can I talk to Mom?"
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Before:  Hey, we need to talk!  Don't you remember me?  From school?  Well I sure remember you!  Look, let me buy you a coffee.  Surely you have a few minutes to chat.  A lot has happened  since those days.