Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rulers on knuckles, but rather the prospect of getting ahead in the world. "I told my mother I wanted to come here because I wanted to learn and be somebody," says Albert Calderon, 15, a sophomore at Cardinal Hayes. His mother, Mirtha Astacio, is a cleaning woman, and her brother helps her pay the tuition. Albert's aspiration: "I want to be what you call a boss...
...cousins, who deny any rivalry, will have to struggle if they want the top job. The last Ford to hold it, Henry II, who stepped down in 1980, said that the company would have "no crown princes." Since Henry's death last September, his younger brother William Sr., 62, has been the only family voice on the board...
...Harper's place are tourists from up North or from over on the other side of the Blue Ridge, in the District of Columbia's westward-creeping suburbs. But the two men standing out front next to a pickup truck, wearing overalls and visored caps, are obviously locals. "My brother got me a statue here last week. He thought I'd like it," says one, the soft twang of his western Virginia accent confirming the visual evidence. "I don't. Can I trade it in on something else?" Harper, a stocky man of medium height, thinks a moment, then replies...
...Lefty, that's not the same boat," a wary Pistone insisted. Lefty was adamant: "Tell me about this boat. How did we get on this boat?" Thinking fast, Agent Pistone recalled the story about the rich brother and then pointed out that if they had partied on a fed boat, they had been a lot smarter than the Congressmen: they had not been caught. "We're sitting here, Left. We beat those FBI guys...
...high-security Dusseldorf courtroom, Lebanon-born Abbas Hamadei went on trial last week in a proceeding watched closely by Western governments. Hamadei, 29, is charged with kidnaping West Germans Rudolf Cordes and Alfred Schmidt in Beirut a year ago. His alleged aim: to bargain for the release of his brother Mohammed, 23, who is awaiting trial in Frankfurt for the June 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and the murder of one of its passengers, U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem...