Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, she was hesitant to launch a new campaign that would inevitably bare their private lives. "As much as she supported Dad, she was a bit apprehensive," says Daughter Andrea, who along with her brother John strongly lobbied their father to get back in. Yet Lee found herself touched by the thousands of letters that poured into Troublesome Gulch, Colo., urging her husband to run again. She watched with growing concern as he became more restless and depressed...
...million package. The next year a Sandinista attack on contra bases inside Honduras persuaded Congress to approve $100 million. This year may be no different. A Central American peace pact should have ensured congressional rejection of new contra funds. But last week both Ortega and his younger brother, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega, delivered speeches that defied the spirit of the peace plan. Now renewed contra aid seems far more likely to be approved...
...political damage. It may indeed help a corrupt and totalitarian regime, but you cannot ignore the fundamental necessity of life." So as the West wonders whether it should bail out that infuriating regime once again, the answer appears to be unpleasant but nonetheless unavoidable: yes, because everyone is his brother's keeper when that brother is starving...
Even more impressive is Osiris and Isis. According to Egyptian mythology, the god Osiris was murdered and dismembered by his brother Set. All the parts of his body except the penis were then reassembled for burial by his sister- wife Isis, so that he could have eternal life. An immense liturgy of transformation grew from this myth, and Kiefer uses it to connect primal fertility rites to the no less awful mysteries of nuclear technology. The painting is filled by a gigantic step-pyramid, the site of Osiris' burial but also, by implication, a nuclear reactor. Osiris' body parts...
...Defense Minister Ortega, brother of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, has close to $1.5 million in diverted Defense Ministry funds in a Swiss bank account...