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...later recovered from his home by police suggests that his racist politics was more deeply rooted. His father had been a founding member of the Vlaams Blok, the anti-immigration, Flemish separatist party renamed Vlaams Belang, or Flemish Interest, in 2004 in a bid to broaden its appeal. His aunt, Frieda Van Themsche, is a VB member of the Belgian parliament. And VB is no fringe party: it got 24% of the Flemish vote in 2004 regional elections, making it the largest party in Flanders, Belgium's biggest and most prosperous region...
...balance? Perhaps. According to the story, the NSA is not actually listening in on the phone calls but monitoring the patterns of calls in a kind of giant Google search, with the hope that their algorithm will detect something untoward and worth investigating. But even if your call to Aunt Sally isn't being listened to by some NSA officer, the program sounds creepy enough that no shortage of senators jumped all over it. The Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, said he'd subpoena the heads of the three telecommunications companies involved...
Finch convened a family meeting that included Justin's parents, his maternal grandparents, a maternal aunt and Karla and John's 22-year-old daughter. The session gave Justin a chance to express his feelings. "I finally got to talk about it," Justin says of his parents' drug use. "I just told them I knew what they did, but I felt safe with them." Even so, Finch had him make a list of family and friends he would call if his parents ever made him feel unsafe. Meanwhile, all the relatives agreed to visit the family twice a week...
Then Polly’s sickly aunt dies of liver failure. Within days of the funeral, Polly announces her engagement to her newly widowed uncle, Boy Dougdale. The family is horror-stricken; Lady Montdore vows to cut Polly off without a cent. The repulsive Boy Dougdale—nicknamed the Lecherous Lecturer on account of the “things he does to little girls”—seems slightly shocked as well. Polly, though, is floating on a cloud of bliss...
Plotkin and Pajcin gave stock tips to Pajcin’s aunt, a seamstress in Croatia, who profited $2 million, The New York Times reported. At one point the two men considered using exotic dancers to gain information from investment bankers, according to The Times...