Word: brotherism
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...idea that Ian wants to be more than just friends. His best friend Lance (Clark Duke), who looks like a paisley-clad Clay Aiken, is an implausible Don Juan figure. In a world where everyone is getting action except Ian—from his 14-year-old younger brother to his dad—Ian feels pressure to lose his virginity and rid himself of the perceived stigma. With Lance egging him on, Ian decides to drive from Chicago to Knoxville in a desperate attempt meet up with an internet acquaintance named “Miss Tasty...
...Francisco 49ers, and Denver Broncos can now sign up with Clear and get fast-pass access to their stadiums. To get a Clear card, customers pay $128 a year and submit to a one-time security screening, which includes iris and fingerprint images. It's a little Big Brother, but if you're the impatient sort, you get to sail past the crowds and straight into the stadium without having to get your bags checked...
...horror--the narrator's grandfather hangs himself--creates a strangely shallow impression. But what the story lacks in polish, it makes up for in mood. Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a northern landscape painting--all shafts of light and clear, palpable chill. The narrator and her brother Jesper grow up in this setting, on a farm in Denmark in the 1930s. Distant from their parents, they find happiness in each other, and as the narrator grows from tagalong sister to adolescent, Petterson gives their relationship a delicate physical dimension...
...general devastation but also for the way it detonates private passions: Jesper's for his resistance work, and the narrator's for Jesper's companionship and safety. This has the potential to turn out bleak. But the thing that sticks is the adoring trust sister places in brother, whether she's a child sneaking out with him via rooftop at night ("I'm not scared, and I just do what he does, it is not difficult when we do it in time with each other, he goes first and I follow"), a young woman trying to match his daring...
...Christ, or any of the other Biblical prophets, truly existed is something that eludes religious scholars. There was therefore much excitement in 2001 when a reclusive Tel Aviv collector, Oded Golan, announced that a stone reliquary had come into his possession inscribed with the words "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." The discovery of the ossuary was hailed in some quarters as a spectacular archaeological find - solidly circumstantial proof, at last, of Christ's existence. For it would have held the remains of the Apostle James, who was killed in A.D. 62 and is described in the Bible...