Word: brother-in-law
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...methods that elude the bean counters. In Hong Kong, Endang Muna Saroh, 35, works as a nanny to two children in a comfortable residential neighborhood, and sends $200 home every month to her mother and 10-year-old son in Surabaya, Indonesia, wiring the money to her brother-in-law's bank account. The country receives recorded remittances such as this worth a total of $1.8 billion a year. Yet like many migrants, Endang also saved hundreds of dollars to carry by hand to her family in August, when she flew home for her first visit in four years...
...television antennas bristle from the rooftops of two-story concrete houses - a far cry from the mud hut in which old Mamadou was raised. Villagers have even started dreaming about building a bridge across the river to connect Ambadedi to the nearest highway, says Sekou Drame, Mamadou's brother-in-law, as he escorts a Time reporter back to the wooden pirogue that will ferry him across the river's muddy flow. "It depends on God," he says. "And our families in France." In Mexico, the Zamora family home is another tangible indicator of the impact of remittances. Zamora...
...pursue them wherever they are and smoke them out of their holes." In parading Rishawi before the cameras, Abdullah also showed that he intends to go head-to-head with the terrorists in the battle for Jordanian hearts and minds. Rishawi has an extremist pedigree-not only her brother-in-law, but also her own brother, another Zarqawi acolyte, died at Falluja. But before a TV audience of millions throughout the Arab world, she struck a pathetic figure. It turns out that she was married only two weeks ago during an Islamic holiday, embarking not on a honeymoon...
...Swedish.Big as his lead now is, he left me a double word score of my own. Miles never was known for his defense. From the “S” I generate “straw,” the familiar nickname of Simon’s brother-in-law Darryl Strawberry. With a double letter score on the “W,” I receive 24 points to get back in the game. He follows with “lute,” running into the “E” of Swedish...
...individuals implicated by the U.N. is Assef Shawkat, who is responsible for military security and is also the brother-in-law to Syrian President Bashar al Assad...