Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...returned to the state last December, he chose a new venue, Dallas, and a new career. With an alchemy of serendipity, energy and a famous family name, he fused two groups of investors into a combine that bought the American League's Texas Rangers this spring. Says his youngest brother Marvin: "This is a real opportunity for him to be George W. Bush and not George Bush...
...reputation for partying, ashore and on the ship." In 1984, while off duty, Hazelwood was arrested for drunken driving in Huntington, and later convicted. Police say he was leaving a parking lot of a tavern where he had been attending a bachelor party for his brother Joshua, when his van smashed into a car. Hazelwood left the scene of the accident, only to be arrested by police in his own driveway...
...only noise that Foreman is eager for is the telephone, ringing with Tyson's call. "We keep on winning, and that phone will ring," assures Foreman's brother Roy, his manager. "One day Tyson'll have to come to us." Until that happens, the old slugger is content enough dreaming his dream. "Champeen of the world," he beams. "Champeen. Great stuff there...
...described Bogrov in the most realistic way, with every detail of his life, his family, his ideology and his behavior. I recognized his brother's interpretation of him as the most correct and convincing. In no way did I belittle the heroic impulse that moved him. I think that the application of the term anti-Semitic to August 1914 is an unscrupulous technique. I had earlier thought this was possible only in the Soviet Union. The book was not yet available because I had not released it, but people stated quite loudly that this was a disgusting, imperialist, revolting, loathsome...
...Werner Spitz, a professor of forensic pathology at Wayne State University, regrets that "people are ashamed to admit a relative committed suicide, seeing it as a blemish on the good name of the family." Since suicide can be contagious, many families rightly fear that a son or daughter, a brother or sister, may be inclined to imitate the act of self-destruction. But "depression is a disease," says Detroit psychiatrist Karole Avila. "The way to rip away the veil over suicide is to destigmatize...