Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Bush and Baker go way back only begins to describe their closeness. Bush brought Baker into politics and firmly believes he would not ^ have become President without him. Nevertheless, the President speaks of Baker as his brother -- his "younger brother," a diminution that signals a certain competitiveness. "It's not unjustified for him to think of me as his protege," says Baker. "But then you have to consider that I took off a lot of time and lost a lot of income working for him in the '80 campaign. That kind of squared the circle. And remember, when...
...doubt this resentment will have a harmful effect on the community: imagine someone participating in the big brother program not because he wants a little sibling, but because he needs the money. The Nunn plan will take the "volunteerness" out of community work, and the whole notion of "one thousand points of light" as the driving incentive becomes monetary. It would be a sad outcome if community work is associated only with those who have to work, those who are poor...
...really didn't know it went in," said Lappin, brother of 1988 ECAC Player of the Year Peter Lappin. "I didn't know I scored it. It just hit the goalie and it went...
This sense of loss appears and reappears in a series of densely detailed flashbacks. It begins when her father, a field naturalist, abandons the lyrical Canadian woods for a university job. She and her brother exchange a "rootless life of impermanence and safety" for the urban wilderness of conformity and cliques. The boy, a prodigy, retreats into a private world of abstruse science and physics. Elaine seeks acceptance by her peers, a gaggle of victimizing girls led by a meanspirited brat named Cordelia. Atwood understands that no subsequent humiliations can ever cut so deep as those of youth. The cruelties...
Retired General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, former head of the Honduran armed forces, left his fortress-like home in Tegucigalpa's posh Florencia Norte district just after 10 a.m. His driver was taking him to purchase a Bible and visit his brother. At an intersection three blocks away, as many as six guerrillas toting submachine guns sprayed Alvarez's car with bullets as he pleaded, "Don't do this to me!" The left-wing Popular Liberation Movement, known as the Cinchoneros, claimed responsibility for the deaths of Alvarez and his driver...