In the middle of the conversation, the kids bring their war over the candy to the edge of the open grave.
Musically, White Rabbits' closest siblings would include Cold War Kids or early Walkmen, given all three bands' fondness for twinkling keyboards, room-filling rock and snarling but seductive vocals.
He's also booking bands and wrangling vendors for his engagement party, scheduled in New Jersey the same night Hurricane Irene looks to hammer the Northeast (with Lenny Kravitz grounded in North Carolina, he eventually subs in the Cold War Kids).
But now he clearly sees the parallels between his cousin and those war-ravaged kids in Africa.
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Robert McNamara and his fellow whizz kids flourished in post-war America because they realised that power was shifting to finance.
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With Delno and Ida working almost all the time, informal supervision of the kids fell to the Filipino war bride who lived across the street and the sharp-eyed Italian grandmothers who had raised their own children on South Elmwood Place.
For many kids who are threatened by disease, natural disasters and war in places like Somalia, Bangladesh, Myanmar and too many other developing countries, this spare change has meant the difference between thriving and merely surviving, health and illness, even life and death.
While I understand that it started as an issue and the kids are following these examples, we're in the midst of war.
"We're happy about the peace agreement but sorry, because these kids won't get the change to see the end of the war, " said one young girl.
Microsoft certainly knows a thing or two about anti-trust suits, and if the kids at Google are to be believed the company is waging something of a proxy war on them by injecting itself in lawsuits and complaints brought up by third parties.
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"Oreiller is the man who inspired a lot of kids in Val d'Isere to try to become ski champions in the post-war period, " said Perret, author of a book about one of Val d'Isere's most famous events.
Where kids once played and neighbors used to hang out together, now all that remains could easily pass for a former war zone.
These moms and others I met maintain their sense of humor in spite of the difficulty of watching kids grow up without their dads, having to explain why birthdays have been missed, why there's a war on.
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