Word: brother-in-law
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...motion picture after visiting Chiran, in which he starred as a former kamikaze pilot who survived. Among the top-grossing domestic films of 2001, it was called Hotaru (Firefly). Hatsuyo now runs the Tomiya Inn in the building that once housed the eatery. Last fall, Akihisa, her brother-in-law, opened a near-exact replica of the eatery next door to display the soldiers' letters and photographs. It is called the Hotaru-kan, or the Firefly House...
...reality was more dramatic than even a histrionic Rooney could have made it - or at least played it, while Rodgers was around and his brother-in-law Ben Feiner Jr. was helping to write the movie's screenplay. (Another scenarist, by the way, was Guy Bolton - the book writer 30 years earlier of the Princess Theatre shows that had inspired Rodgers and Hart to try musical comedy.) Just before the opening, Hart had been on one of his suicidal toots, and when he arrived at the theater an exasperated Rodgers forbade him entrance. Two days later, ill with pneumonia...
...Noul, the teenager whose home was invaded by the police, got word from her family this February that her brother and brother-in-law had been arrested. For now, all she can do is try to build a life in North Carolina. "When the highlands have freedom, I will go back," A'Noul says. She does not expect to return anytime soon...
...Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf. Janjalani, who was killed in 1998, was close to bin Laden, and in the early 1990s Yousef worked with him in the Philippines. Janjalani's operations are believed by Philippine authorities to have been bankrolled by Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, bin Laden's brother-in-law...
...life, flirting with women and planning a vacation with his ill-earned gains. What keeps you reading is the mystery of "why," and the smart writing that refuses to answer the question directly. Instead you get a glimpse into the life of someone who could be your brother-in-law, whose story has as much drama and mystery as any overwrought fiction...