Graduates, make your life’s work matter

Edit The Miami Herald 10 Jun 2016
When they called my son’s name for an award, I was jolted to attention ... My son is on the autism spectrum and, although high-functioning, he struggled in school with a number of issues ... His words made me think of the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes ... She tells her son that her life hasn’t been a “crystal stair.” ... It’s something our son will continue to need ... My son is also a good money manager....

All My Sons review: Star cast shine in monumental, flawlessly performed production

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 10 Jun 2016
ALL MY SONS ... "I believe that the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were," wrote Arthur Miller in The New York Times in 1949, two years after his breakthrough play, All My Sons, brought the playwright, then in his early 30s, to national attention ... Chris Ryan and John Howard in All My Sons ... Robyn Nevin, Josh McConville and Eryn Jean Norvill in All My Sons....

What the Stanford rape case can teach our sons

Edit The Miami Herald 10 Jun 2016
I’ll read it to my sons when their mother and I feel each is old enough ... I’ll explain to my sons what happened, how a California jury found 20-year-old Turner guilty of three counts of sexual assault ... I want my sons to read that, and I want them to understand what rape is and I want them to know, without a hint of doubt, that it is an unconscionable crime for which there is no excuse ... The father said of his son....

Dear Abby: Son’s girlfriend is exploiting our kindness

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 10 Jun 2016
My husband and I have a 22-year-old son who has moved back home due to his relocating ... We have tried to overlook them, but the latest involves a car our son asked us to sell her because she was in a bind because of some stupid financial decisions she had made ... Are we wrong to feel taken advantage of? I would add that we have always tried to help our only son as much as we can....

Kiwis respond to Standford sex assault case

Edit Otago Daily Times 10 Jun 2016
There has been condemnation of the sentence handed down to swim-team member Brock Turner, who was jailed for six months for raping a 22-year-old woman in an alley after a party; there has been praise for the victim's articulate and emotional 7000-word statement on the assault; and there has been outrage over the father of Mr Brock defending his son's actions ... Perhaps you joked with your son about that too, Mr Turner....

California mother reunited with son abducted in 1995

Edit Atlanta Journal 10 Jun 2016
A California mother was reunited Thursday with her abducted son, laying eyes on him and wrapping her arms around him for the first time in 21 years. Maria Mancia had been left with just a single photo of her son since his father took him in 1995 ... Since that time, 42-year-old Maria Mancia had searched for her son to no avail ... Since that time, 42-year-old Maria Mancia had searched for her son to no avail....

Dadri lynching: 8 months on, 'eye-witnesses' demand FIR against Akhlaq's family

Edit DNA India 10 Jun 2016
It goes on to mention that three days before the lynching, some locals, including one Ranveer, saw Akhlaq and his younger son Danish beating a calf and forcefully taking it inside the shed owned by Akhlaq's brother Jaan Mohamad around midnight ... Home guard Vinay, who was present at the panchayat held last week, had then said, "My son was innocent and was given a clean chit earlier but was arrested under pressure....

ACT drug-law reformer Brian McConnell dies of mesothelioma after years in a Fluffy house

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 10 Jun 2016
Mr McConnell, who lost his son to a heroin overdose in 1992, received his diagnosis of mesothelioma on the day the government announced it would buy and demolish all 1022 Fluffy homes in October 2014 ... This approach was remarked by others who knew Mr McConnell through his work on drug-law reform, work that was sparked by his son's death ... "It was always there," Mrs McConnell said of her son's death....

Goldman Sachs is sponsoring a Scientology-based jail ‘re-education’ program — and it’s growing

Edit Raw Story 10 Jun 2016
A few years ago, Abe Bergman’s 19-year-old son was court-ordered into a residential treatment program in Washington State for co-occurring mental illness and “substance abuse.” After he’d been in the program about a week, Bergman called and asked. “Can I come visit my son?” The person he spoke to, a... ....

Degree in hand, guard Jordan Chatman will transfer

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 10 Jun 2016
ProvoSuddenly, BYU’s basketball program is a bit thin at the guard line ... Chatman, a 6-foot-5 guard who is the son of former BYU great Jeff Chatman, has three years of eligibility remaining. Coincidentally, Jeff Chatman tweeted earlier Thursday that his son had been accepted into BYU’s law school. It is not clear to which school Jordan Chatman will... ....

Woman murdered

Edit The Hindu 10 Jun 2016
... that Mariappan of Athitchanallur in Thoothukudi district had married Prema even as his wife, having two sons, was alive....

Provo man arrested on suspicion of murder after father's body found in freezer

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 10 Jun 2016
The body of a Provo man reported missing by his family was found Thursday in a freezer at his home, and his 27-year-old son was arrested on suspicion of murder, police said. The victim was identified as Marco Carmona, 57, who lived in the Leisure Village Mobile Home Park, 957 W. 100 South, with family members, including his wife. His son, Omar Carmona, who was booked into the Utah County jail at about 7 p.m ... ....

Muhammad Ali's Main Line daughter recalls his life, final hours

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 10 Jun 2016
Wertheimer, a designer, author and real estate agent, lives on the Main Line with her husband, Samuel Wertheimer and their son....
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