Word: brotherism
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...commonplace in Africa for one child to be invested with such massive expectation. "You have to force out the one that is intelligent," says Kwame. "So he can be the breadwinner for the family." That's tough for those left behind - Delight's older brother and sister both left school at 16 and now struggle with whatever work they can find. It can be tough on the chosen one, too. Delight was singled out from a young age and sent off at 13 to live with his grandfather so he could attend a good junior high. "I feel responsibility...
...ones, though, are smart, colorful and effective. Benjamin Hampton, a recent graduate of Washington State University in Pullman, posted a 5 1/2-min. video on YouTube last fall, thinking it would be something different to send to employers. (To view Hampton's video résumé, go to TIME.com. With his brother at the camera, the résumé "took me 45 minutes to film and 30 minutes to edit," says Hampton, 23. But that was enough to impress Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. The public relations firm interviewed him--in person--a short time...
...American family. One story, "Wiseguys," for example, details her "loser" father's various bottom-feeding money schemes, including a burglar alarm company whose name, "B.A.R.G." he explained was "grab spelled backwards! And our motto is 'grab your money and run!'" Another story tells of how her little brother, who was a little too "sensitive" for such ambitious parents, suffered endless acrimony. His fantasy for his teddy bear was that "teddy wants...
...month Uribe is expecting a visit from President Bush - who considers the conservative Uribe one of his own few allies in Latin America, and whose administration lists Colombia's right-wing paras as drug-trafficking terrorists - but also because one of the senators accused in the scandal was the brother of Colombia's foreign minister...
...latter problem seemed to have been slightly defused Monday with the resignation of Foreign Minister Maria Consuelo Araujo. But not before the spectacle of seeing her brother Sen. Alvaro Araujo charged not only with collusion with the para warlord who controlled his home region, but also with participating in the kidnapping of a rival politician. When Sen. Araujo was called in for questioning last fall, local pundits had called for Minister Araujo's resignation. But Uribe said he refused to "sacrifice" his foreign minister because of the possible misdeeds of her brother. Nevertheless, after the senator's arrest...