Word: brotherism
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...With a book by director George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira, Of Thee I Sing opened Dec. 26, 1931, with George conducting the orchestra, and ran for 441 performances. It would be the Gershwin's biggest hit, and the first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama. The award went to Kaufman, Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for supplying the words; George, who supplied the immortal music, was not eligible. (The decision chafed...
...save their family, Randy, his brother Laurence and cousin Rydell, both 18, had to jump from a third-story window into the 8-ft.-deep waters of the flooded city. The cousins, none of whom are strong swimmers, swam several blocks to get an abandoned boat and then spent nine hours ferrying family members to higher ground, helping others when they could...
...DIED. Pramod Mahajan, 56, general secretary of India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); from gunshot wounds allegedly inflicted 12 days earlier by his brother Pravin, who reportedly told police he was tired of being ignored by his powerful sibling; in Bombay. After the BJP's surprise defeat in the 2004 general elections, Mahajan was seen as the great hope to revive the party; his death leaves India's struggling opposition in further disarray. Mahajan, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was "a charismatic and youthful leader, full of promise and energy." Pravin has been charged with murder and is awaiting...
...troubling. The most effective way to curb Adderall abuse would be for colleges to implement anti-doping policies and drug-test students prior to exams. Those who test positive and lack prescriptions would be suspended or expelled from school. While this measure may sound unnecessarily extreme and Big Brother-esque at face value, if it means curtailing unfair practices and preventing heart attacks and sudden deaths among students, it certainly seems worth the trouble. But parents, too, must act. Many of the same people that so vehemently scorn Barry Bonds and Major League Baseball are encouraging the overmedication of their...
When my 47-year-old husband Fred lay dying in a hospital from a heart attack, I sobbed to my brother, "He can't die. Who will give Nate his shots?" Nate was our autistic son, then 5, and the injections were one of the myriad can't-miss cures we had tried in order to help...