Word: brotherism
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...find themselves embroiled. The partners are grateful for his services, and don't care to know too much about his methods. Or his extra-curricular activities, which include a gambling habit and an $80,000 debt to the mob, who lent him money for a bar that his feckless brother ran into the ground...
...press group still owns 7.5% of EADS. Lagardère - who has not only denied any wrongdoing, but has threatened litigation to address damage done to his reputation by the reports - is also a personal friend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who once famously called the businessman "my brother." In addition to Lagardère, three other former co-chairmen and co-chief executives have been named in media reports as inquiry suspects, as have a number of current EADS and Airbus officials...
...cultures of personal revelation and exposure, while Muslim cultures are traditionally structured around protecting honor and propriety. On our shrunken planet, the two codes bump up against one another, throwing each other into relief. The same era that's given us the tell-all circus that is Big Brother and a cybervideo of Paris Hilton in flagrante also seems to have produced a striking rise in Western Muslims taking up the veil. The more of private life Western pop culture reveals, the more Muslim women decide to conceal...
...amateurish and disorganized, but the Kolkata derby still inflames the passions of thousands. Afterward, two men in their early 20s wait to hop onto one of the many trucks that ferry fans back to Kolkata's impoverished suburbs. Though brothers, their loyalties are divided. "Sure, it was muddy. It was ugly," says the beaming Mohun Bagan fan as his brother dejectedly looks on. "But to us, it's beautiful...
...says of the switch. “I didn’t want to waste time…but the idea spread like a plague.”And he’s not the only Nadler to catch the plague: at the age of twelve, his little brother is already a level 70.“One of my best memories with my brother was when we were both at the same level. We went to a player versus player battle and stuck together as a team of two people,” says Nadler, smiling to himself...