Word: brothers
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America has lost one of its true adventurers, and Scott, Gordo, Wally and I have lost another brother. Al is now on the ultimate high flight. We will all miss him very much...
...chants. Participating at services is not required, and if those on retreat spend their entire time sequestered behind closed doors or meditatively walking the often expansive acreage, the monks bless that too. "People come here and think they're supposed to sit in chapel all the time," says Brother John Thomas, a monk at Holy Cross Monastery in New York's Hudson River valley. "You're trying too hard; that's spiritual constipation. God is bigger than that." For people who remember religion as based on threats or guilt, the freedom can lead to a detente with organized religion. "They...
King Hussein's announcement that he has lymphoma has Jordanians speculating about the future. Hussein's brother, Crown Prince Hassan, 51, has been the designated heir for 33 years and would be expected to succeed unchallenged, but naming his successor is likely to spark friction...
...blood-is-thicker-than-water department, Billy Baldwin is said to be upset with big brother Alec because Alec didn't invite him to the fund-raiser. The New York Post says the trouble started when the brothers endorsed different candidates for a New York Senate seat and escalated after Billy was elected to succeed Alec as president of the Creative Coalition, a liberal actors' activist group. A spokesman for Billy denied there was a rift...
DIED. RICHARD MCDONALD, 89, vending visionary who, with his brother Maurice, started a hamburger chain that became international fast-food behemoth McDonald's Corp; in Manchester, N.H. In 1948 the brothers created the first self-service drive-through, offering speedy service and low prices. As the franchise expanded, Maurice handled operations while Richard focused on marketing, designing the now ubiquitous Golden Arches and the "millions served" placards. In 1961 the brothers sold the business for $2.7 million to Ray Kroc, once their milk-shake mixer salesman...