Word: brotherism
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...asked my 10-year-old brother what he had learned in school about Columbus. “Well,” he said with confidence, “his ships were the Niña, the Pinta, and the Mayflower…” I told him I didn’t think the Mayflower was one of the ships on Columbus’s voyage to America. Then I asked him what Columbus did once he got to America. “He met some Indians and the Indians died,” my brother replied. Perhaps this...
...brother John is a friend and former business partner of President George W. Bush and was appointed ambassador to Japan in 2005 after four years as Australia's ambassador...
...intellect and his personality. His optimism even in the face of his bleak prognosis was the first trait noted by all who spoke of him. “Mikey had this ability to get an entire room to burst into spontaneous laughter,” said his older brother Brian Friedman, recalling his brother’s penchant for playing pranks and making clever jokes. Robert B. Schaaf ’11, one of Mikey’s roommates, described how Friedman once printed 50 or 60 copies of a photo that one of their other roommates found embarrassing...
...Governor Sarah Palin abuse the power of her office in trying to get her former brother-in-law, State Trooper Mike Wooten, fired...
...such as “hating on me” and “got nothin’ but love for ya.” The only other person of color who shows up in the novel is Pat’s therapist, Cliff, whom Pat’s brother and friends call a “dot head.” When Pat reveals that he knows Cliff, however, his brother changes his behavior, and the incident is quickly forgotten, if not resolved. The child-like complacency of Pat’s narration only serves to heighten the tension...