Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House staff to do the same. When he ordered 1 million federal workers in "sensitive" jobs to submit to drug testing, however, he did not explain how it would be administered. The answer came last week, but the complex guidelines seem to create a combination of Big Brother and high school bathroom monitors -- a sort of Big John...
...midmorning the Masai pause. The cows graze, and the herdsmen shelter lazily under a grove of olive trees. Moses and Olentwala joke in Ol' Maa. The visitor stretches out and makes notes: "Moses has killed six lions, more than 60 buffalo. A buffalo wounded his brother last year, and he wants to kill lots of buffalo. He points to a buff. skull on the forest floor and says he killed that one there several months ago. Cows grazing all around me now. M. shows me a 'buffalo's house' -- a hollowed out space among the olive trees where the buffalo...
...visitor came first to the enk'ang of Moses' older brother Joseph, who, surrounded by children and dogs and friends, strode out from the boma -- a tall thorn-and-cedar enclosure, the feudal African fortress against lions and leopards -- to meet him. Joseph was smaller and more delicately boned than Moses. He had the fine, intelligent head of a Talmudic scholar, the visitor decided, an Ethiopian head, a fastidious head, given to complex distinctions. Joseph and the visitor set out in the evening light to walk across the hills to Moses' boma. Joseph wore a handsome red blanket hung over...
...much of each year being chauffeured across America, picking sites for future motels through some instinctive knowledge of where future tired travelers will want to be treated to the comforts of home. Among the three dreamers, Disney seems the least fulfilled, his interest in pure animation chilled by his brother's insistence that Mickey Mouse stand up and act like a human...
...alone in thinking her mentally disturbed. In 1982 a District of Columbia judge appointed Douglass's brother and sister conservators of her affairs on the ground that, among other things, she "had acquired a romantic and unreasonable fixation for the person of the Pope." According to court documents, she once tried to become the Pontiff's helicopter pilot and attempted to purchase Rolls-Royces...