Word: brotherism
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...forgive - a process he does not make easy for her. He does not make living with him easy for anyone. Not his super smart daughter, Vanessa (Ellen Page), doing a role reversal, in which she plays a sort of surrogate parent to him; not for Chuck, his feckless brother (hilariously played by Thomas Haden Church)- not for anyone who crosses his lurching path...
...featured a cover story on Tibet when the world is preparing to participate in the most prestigious international athletic event in China. The world community should pressure China to end its occupation of Tibet. As an Indian American, I'd like India to stop treating China as a brother and the U.S. to stop the hypocrisy of doing business with China while maintaining its embargo against Cuba. Vishwanath Ayengar, Wappingers Falls...
...like to think that science has a role similar to that of an older sibling. Science has of course been around longer than any of us and is quite useful in catching us up to speed on the world. I still remember when my older brother first told me that atoms have three parts: electrons, neutrons, and protons. I was floored. Three different parts! All ending in “ons!” The recent Harpers’ Findings testifies to the knowledge that science can still provide: natural disasters have quadrupled in the past two decades, thousands...
...Although Stanley was accepted early by the University of Chicago, her father wouldn't let her go. She was too young to be off on her own, he said, unaware, as fathers tend to be, of what could happen when she lived in his house. (Read "Obama's Half Brother Makes a Name for Himself in China...
...Thaksin's former spokesman is now Foreign Minister, while the new Finance Minister is a friend of the ousted P.M. who has little economics training. Three wives of men who were members of Thaksin's dissolved political party were also named cabinet members. To top it off, Thaksin's brother-in-law is deputy prime minister...