Word: brother-in-law
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...Fujimori's predicament is made all the worse because the interior minister, the defense minister and the armed forces chiefs of staff are all loyal to the feared Montesinos. The general who commands the Lima garrison and the armored division also happens to be the intelligence chief's brother-in-law. In the early hours of Monday, Fujimori had driven from his palace to the "Little Pentagon" of the military high command , and according to some army sources he tried to win backing for his efforts to drop Montesinos but was rebuffed by the top brass. In other words, Fujimori...
...little impatient because he wants his brother-in-law Terry to have the complete collection before he dies. He's already given his fishing gear to another brother-in-law. He divvied up his two gemstone rings and a gold necklace among his sisters and has bequeathed his soft-rock CD collection to Twilia, who has similar musical tastes. "That's about all I have," he notes matter-of-factly. Making the decisions himself about what happens to his few possessions lets him feel better--so much better that his health has actually improved a bit since he rejected further...
...intense. If Americans decide they want a regular guy in the White House, they'll elect George W. Bush, who is also tightly wound but does a much better job of hiding it. The parade of Gore relatives was exhausting and a little pointless (news flash: Gore's brother-in-law thinks he's great). But from time to time, the real Gore did come through. During All Things Al, some of the speakers were arrayed on one of those groovy multilevel platforms the 5th Dimension once used to sing Up, Up and Away on shows like the Smothers Brothers...
This year, my brother-in-law Charlie Brind caught two muskies the first evening, small but comely, a propitious sign - except that one of the fish bit Charlie on the finger as he worked the hook loose. After that, nothing...
...movie script, Veerappan led a dozen fellow bandits into the home of Rajkumar, 73, an ailing film icon, chattily asked Rajkumar's wife if she recognized him (she did, later recalling his unmissable mustache) and handed her an audiotape of his demands. He then took the actor, a brother-in-law and two other business associates into the forest where Veerappan has hidden out for more than two decades...