Word: brotherism
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...Constitution itself. Time was hardly “out of joint”—Hamlet’s famed remark, coincidentally, was also associated with taking an oath—but it was momentarily and painfully dislocated. I clenched my teeth and turned to my brother, watching along with me in Quincy House, and winced. It was an inauspicious commencement, to say the least...
...small in comparison. That paradox is most visible at sites like the University of the Andes in the western city of Merida. In generations past, the school was an incubator for many of the Marxists who now occupy Chávez's government, including Chávez's older brother Adan. But this past week it was the setting for one of many scenes of violent standoffs between anti-Chávez students and the national guard...
...juxtaposes a high number of abuses over the years, many of which have been forgotten. In 1994, 29-year-old Anthony Báez was strangled by an NYPD officer after refusing to leave the street in front of his home where he was playing football with his little brother. In June 2007, Michael Tarif and Evelyn Warren, human rights attorneys, were themselves assaulted when they attempted to help a young black man who was being beaten by the cops. Oscar Grant’s murder is part of a long history that calls far higher degree of accountability...
...Such a view has little traction for Hazlett Lynch, who stood silently at the back of the conference room, holding aloft a black-and-white photograph of his brother. Kenneth Lynch, a policeman, was 22 years old when he was shot in an IRA ambush in 1977. "I find these proposals totally repugnant", says Lynch. "How can they equate my brother's life with the people who killed him in cold blood?" He adds: "We want justice for what happened. We don't want to be bought...
...Pauline Fitzpatrick also lost a brother in 1977. He was a member of the IRA in Belfast, one of many poor teenagers who joined paramilitary groups at the height of the Troubles. Fitzpatrick's parents were unaware her brother had joined the IRA until he was killed by the British army. Today, Fitzpatrick is a family support worker who counsels mostly Catholic families whose relatives were killed by the police or by British security forces. "Obviously money doesn't solve all these people's problems", says Fitzpatrick after the public meeting. "But it's an important recognition that they have...