Word: brotherism
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...considers this unlikely. "I don't think Warren would give away any of his power - he's too controlling and hungry for it and these men would be threats to his leadership. Plus they would never go against Jeffs' wishes." Jessop predicts that Jeffs will rely on his full brother, Lyle Jeffs, to act as his puppet and carry out his "revelations" from prison. "He has had it too good for too long to let this thing go - he would rather watch the whole church dissipate than let someone else take over power," says Jessop...
...quick meal of chicken, porridge and cabbage. Obama told reporters gathered outside the house that he had apologized to his grandmother for all the attention she had received "because of me." "He's gone a long way," says Auma Obama, a social worker in London, who accompanied her brother on his latest trip. "He's grown...
...occasion upstage him). He bills it as the story of his life - troubled childhood, years of hoofing in Broadway chorus lines, the inevitable drug-fueled crash and rousing comeback - only most of it isn't true. His voice cracks at the big note in his opening number; his brother from Canada pops up in the balcony to complain that Marty is being unfair to the family; and he confesses that, when it comes to his daunting Broadway challenge, he goes by Mandy Patinkin's advice: "Always leave the audience wanting less...
Groucho Marx, as Otis B. Driftwood in A Night at the Opera, and his brother Chico, as Fiorello, are haggling over a contract for an opera singer's services, when Groucho brings up one more clause: "It says 'If any of the parties participating in this contract is shown not to be in their right mind, the entire agreement is automatically nullified.'" When Chico demurs, Groucho soothingly replies, "It's all right, that's in every contract. That's what they call a 'sanity clause'." Chico laughs derisively. "You can't fool me!" he snorts. "There ain't no Sanity...
...white person" or "stranger," depending on whom you ask. The result is that African Americans who would like to think of Ghana as home sometimes get the cold shoulder. The government has started a campaign to get Ghanaians to use the term akwaaba anyemi--which means "welcome home, brother"--when talking to African Americans. Just fake the sincerity, in other words. (It works in the U.S., doesn't it?) Obetsebi-Lamptey says the new measure isn't just about investment but also about healing old wounds. But not all African Americans are so thin skinned. "It is not derogatory...