Word: brother-in-law
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...owed the airport manager a favor. So the next night my colleagues and I invited Syed and his family over to the hotel for a barbecue dinner. His sister, wife and brother-in-law all had master's degrees, and the conversation was agreeably familiar - not much different from many you'd hear in the U.S. Syed also brought his eight-year-old niece. She was a sweet kid, friendly and smiling, and a little wild. And she kept sneaking away from the table to play beside a stream that ran through the hotel garden. Then her uncle asked...
...owed the airport manager a favor. So the next night my colleagues and I invited Syed and his family over to the hotel for a barbecue dinner. His sister, wife and brother-in-law all had master's degrees, and the conversation was agreeably familiar - not much different from many you'd hear in the U.S. Syed also brought his eight-year-old niece. She was a sweet kid, friendly and smiling, and a little wild. And she kept sneaking away from the table to play beside a stream that ran through the hotel garden. Then her uncle asked...
...Philippines, went further. "We will give all-out support," she vowed, promising whatever is asked, including troops. Like Megawati, Arroyo risks being labeled a lackey for America by political enemies. Of more worry, the Philippines carries a reputation as a terrorist and money-laundering locale. A bin Laden brother-in-law helped set up Abu Sayyaf, the gratuitously violent separatist group from the southern island of Mindanao. To date, Abu Sayyaf has outfought, outsmarted and, on occasion, paid off Philippine law enforcement. It is well funded, well armed and, observers fear, primed for regional expansion. A Philippine problem...
...Glick say they don't need confirmation. "You'd have to know Mark," says Bingham's aunt Kathy Hoglan. "I'm sure he and the others did something to stop this." "He knew that stopping them was going to end all of their lives," says Jeremy Glick's brother-in-law Douglas Hurwitt. "But that was my brother-in-law. He was a take-charge guy." Deena Burnett says, "I know without a doubt that the plane was bound for some landmark and that they saved many, many more lives than were lost on that plane...
Consoling his brother-in-law in Connecticut and his family back in Ireland, Clifford received a phone call from Maffeo's sister. Clifford told her about his own losses in the crash. The sister gave Clifford the family's thanks for putting himself at risk to be her sister's savior. Clifford replied that she had it wrong--he never would have made it out of the building before it collapsed if he had not picked up her sister. "The truth is, she saved my life, she gave me strength," says Clifford. He also believes his sister Ruth's hovering...