Word: brotherism
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...would have thought his advanced age and unstable health would have been reason enough for the Cardinals to pick someone else." FATHER GEORG RATZINGER, brother of Benedict XVI, on the College of Cardinals' choice of his younger sibling as Pope...
...Janeiro. I had just completed two years in Saigon for TIME, reporting the chaotic endgame of a cruel war. Six months later, with Communist forces close to overrunning the country, I headed back to Saigon to try to bring out Nga's parents, five sisters and her brother. We had arranged visas to the U.S. for them from Rio, but they needed help getting on an evacuation flight. On April 29, I boarded an Air Vietnam 707 in Bangkok bound for Saigon. But Tan Son Nhut airport had fallen overnight, and after circling over the Mekong Delta, the flight...
...brother, David Mac Lane, explained that despite his prominence, the famed mathematician was often reluctant to take on administrative posts...
...since divided his empire among his three sons: Naguib, the eldest, took telecommunications; the youngest, Nassef, runs the construction business; and the middle brother, Samih, has a tourism and travel company. Naguib seems to have inherited his father's golden touch. Over the past six years, Cairo-based Orascom Telecom Holding has grown into an increasingly profitable company with more than $2 billion in annual revenue and 14.5 million subscribers in Muslim countries, including Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia...
...Oldham’s words do indeed characteristically reference bodily fluids and gory death. The extent of the two musicians’ collaboration is unclear, as the album itself is unmistakably close to Oldham’s past recordings , whose other alter-egos include Palace and Palace Music (with brother Neil). Sweeney, whose past work includes stints with the Billy Corgan project Zwan and Guided By Voices, is indeed present on the album (and even more-so in their live performance), but each song forces Oldham to come powerfully to the fore. Sweeney is given credit for the music...