Word: brother
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Rumpled and round, he was intensely cerebral, with a deeply speculative mind that focused on more than just business. He was involved in liberal politics, employing both Vernon Jordan and, for several years, Rahm Emanuel. And he loved the media. The brother of deceased playwright Wendy Wasserstein, he edited his college newspaper as a teenager, interned at Forbes magazine and, over the past decade, assembled and sold American Lawyer Media, founded The Deal and acquired New York magazine...
...upon the brothers’ bungled attempts to recreate old action movie scenes, “All Saints Day” makes a conscious attempt to churn out fantastically outlandish fight scenes and hard-boiled, quotable one-liners. Murphy kicks off a killing campaign by cheekily remarking to his brother, “Let’s do some gratuitous violence.” Later, Romeo even threatens to physically harm a hostage if he doesn’t help him come up with a punchy zinger to shout gloatingly after taking out a group of mobsters...
...Accused of orchestrating voter fraud in his brother's favor near Kandahar during the presidential election. Opponents suggested Karzai shut down polling places and stuffed ballot boxes in areas where opposition to Hamid Karzai was heavy...
...have the kind of hard, direct evidence that you could take to get a criminal indictment. That allows [Hamid] Karzai to say, 'where's your proof?'" - A Bush White House official on the difficulties of trying to get President Karzi to look into his brother Wali Karzai's alleged involvement in the drug trade. (New York Times...
Read "Karzai's Problem Brother: Drugs, Spies and Controversy...