Word: brotherism
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...arts school, Fleck once again heard the sounds of the banjo when the movie “Deliverance” was released and the song “Dueling Banjos” became a smash hit. Shortly thereafter, Fleck’s grandfather bought an old banjo for his brother, which Fleck immediately took possession of. Fleck, who learned the banjo by moving to Nashville and mimicking the masters of the time, candidly discussed his lack of formal education. He admitted that his inability to read music sometimes limits the range of music he can play, but he also emphasized...
...Party (PPP) to victory in the first postcoup elections last December. A proxy for Thaksin, whose own party was disbanded by the junta, the PPP is led by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej. His new Cabinet teems with Thaksin loyalists: the Foreign Minister is Thaksin's former lawyer, while his brother-in-law has been named Education Minister...
...long after Michelle Robinson started getting serious about the tall, skinny law student she was dating, she asked her brother Craig, a former basketball star at Princeton and now the head coach at Brown, to hoop it up with him, one on one. "She had heard our father and me talk about how you can tell a lot about a person's personality based on how they play," says Craig, recalling his first game against Barack Obama. "Especially when they're tired...
...Santa Maria!” and smothering our cheeks with kisses. They ushered us into the kitchen where the women were preparing the Ferragosto lunch, comparable to American Thanksgiving. Half an hour later, more food had been made, extra chairs were fitted around the table, and my brother and I were instructed to sit at the kids’ table with a cousin whose name was Maria Grazie—forever “Maria Thank you” to us. Three hours later, I had entered a culinary coma from which I thought I’d never emerge...
...interest is personal as well as political: each has parents who fled the nation after Fidel Castro took power, and each looks to the day when the Cuban people will have more than one choice for president on their ballots.The formal transfer of power from Fidel Castro to his brother Raul Castro marks the first transfer of power in 49 years. For most Harvard students, this is the first time they’ve witnessed a change in Cuba’s leadership in their lifetimes. But, according to Lage, Velo-Arias, and Balmori, Raul’s election...