Word: brothers
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This I remembered, as a teacher mourning Matthew Shepard; but then I recalled also that Nabokov lost his own brother, whom the Nazis arrested and killed because he was gay. Literature, unlike philosophy, is not a consolation. When in Armenia they mourn a child, parents cry, "May I be the one to bear your pain!" They can't and Heaven can't hear the howl. Oh, Matthew Shepard, tsaved tanem...
...sale marked the end of one of the most colorful and controversial stewardships of a pizza company--or for that matter any other type of business. Monaghan, a devout Roman Catholic and an antiabortion crusader, has for years been drifting away from Domino's, which he founded with his brother in 1960, toward charitable pursuits at home and in foreign countries. He has opened a mission in Honduras and supervised construction of a cathedral in Nicaragua. More recently Monaghan has bankrolled Catholic elementary schools in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a Catholic liberal arts college in nearby Ypsilanti. "He loves...
...burden may be easing. A coalition of groups backed by the School & Home Office Products Association and World Vision's Brother to Brother International has begun setting up "free stores" to offer teachers a place to fill their needs without worrying about who pays...
That effort was local. But a year later, trustees of SHOPA's charitable foundation began discussing a national school-supply program. One trustee suggested tapping into World Vision's Brother to Brother plan, which operates throughout the U.S. Some time later, World Vision's Robert Odom overheard Chicago school principal Tyson fretting that her students had no pencils for a citywide test. Odom called BTB in Tempe, Ariz., and urged them to start a school-supply program. "We've been talking to SHOPA for a year about this," he was told...
...rolled out a new spot highlighting D'Amato's antiabortion stance, and he keeps trying to persuade New Yorkers that D'Amato's bring-home-the-bacon image is phony. Through all the scandals that have beclouded D'Amato--his relatives and friends got federally funded houses; his brother got to use D'Amato's Senate office as a lobbyist's suite--many voters have clung to one idea: D'Amato may be a blackguard, but he's their blackguard, grabbing whatever he can for the state. Schumer argues that D'Amato has been bad for New York because...