Word: brotherism
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...view as the Board both historically and into the future as being more of a best friend, a best pal, than an overseer if it is someone who is higher than others,” said Morgan Chu, who found out that he had won during Commencement, where his brother, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, delivered the keynote address...
...Roads and Richmond and Petersburg and here, of course, in Alexandria, all across northern Virginia, are supporting me because they know I know their issues," he said. Moran, a former prosecutor, was chairman of the legislature's Democratic caucus until he left office in December. He is also the brother of Representative Jim Moran, who represents Virginia's 8th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. (See 10 elections that changed America...
...Until today, you felt that [the five accused] were laughing at you and that people said it was a waste of time," says Kathy Gallagher, 31, whose brother Aidan died in the attack. "We're so glad to have this result. Now I feel like we have the last laugh on them...
...This includes the nice ones, wounded sparrows like the Garnetts, Tom (Chris Messina) and Munch (Melanie Lynskey). Munch can't have kids, so they adopted; this is presented as the ultimate curse. Burt's brother Courtney (Paul Schneider) dearly loves his young daughter, but thinks she will be forever stigmatized because his wife has walked out. Apparently only traditional nuclear families can be happy. Indeed, the one successful brood is the one at the movie's center; they are all the things their friends aren't, and as sensitive as the acoustic guitar sound track mandatory in U.S. indie films...
...script, by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, sends four guys - Doug the groom (Justin Bartha), plus Alan, his fiancée's oddball brother (Galifianakis), and Phil and Stu - to Las Vegas for a booze-babes-and-baccarat bachelor party two nights before the wedding. It'll be, one promises, a "night we'll never forget." Next morning, three of them come groggily to in their suite. With them are a tiger in the bathroom and an infant in the closet. Missing, to their horror, are the groom, one of Stu's front teeth - and any memory of what happened...