Word: brotherism
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Manny's sister Isidra, however, says her brother is too strong-minded to be dissuaded from politics. "Whatever Manny does, we'll support," she says. During the huge floods in Manila in September, he took a motorcade from the mountain resort where he was training to help distribute relief to victims. "He wants to be giving service," his sister says. "He has big potential. He is caring, thoughtful and generous." Dionisia is quieter about her son's career after boxing. "I will support and pray for him," she says. But she worries. "There's a lot of trouble in politics...
Days later, however, came the domestic backlash. Iranian Judiciary Chief Sadeq Larijani told reporters, "sending uranium out of Iran should be pondered upon and it seems that such an interaction on nuclear energy is not beneficial to Iran." His brother, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani, was also reportedly critical, saying the proposal as it stood was "neither logical nor legal." Parliament members began to publicly bash the Vienna deal. One member stated there is no guarantee in the proposed deal that the West "will fulfill their commitments" in the nuclear talks and that "Iran is right to distrust...
...ethnic Chinese. Despite the occasional bursts of anti-Chinese violence, businesses in Thailand and Indonesia are still disproportionately controlled by overseas Chinese today. As a consequence, even as Beijing pleads that it's only interested in trade - not political influence - Southeast Asians are wary of their new big brother...
...also discussed the necessity for younger generations to understand life in America before the Civil Rights era, commenting on the great disparity between the opportunities he had growing up versus those of his older brother, Paul “Rocky” Gates...
...walk briskly to keep up,” said Matthew E. D’Asaro, her older brother...