Word: brothers
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...expected to be a little boy. So intent were her parents on a son that they failed to prepare for the possibility of her appearance, and she had to wait till the week after her birth to receive her full name: Diana Frances Spencer. Two older sisters (and the brother who eventually arrived) would have royal godparents, but her father and mother chose commoners to swear their faith for her at the baptismal font...
...ever," said CNN's Elsa Klensch after the house's show of spring fashions last fall in Milan, "but for her it was a triumph." The "her" is Donatella Versace, a designer in her own right, who took over the company's creative reins in the wake of her brother Gianni's murder last July in Miami. In the opinion of most observers, the Milan show--as well as a show for Versace's Versus line the same week--proved the house is in capable hands, its visionary wedding of cheap sex appeal, expensive classicism and odd materials still potent...
...Chicago's St. Michael's Catholic Church, which he had visited twice weekly while making his start as a comedian. Sunday had always been a favorite church day for him, as was Tuesday, when there were special prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary. After the service on Dec. 14, Brother Patrick Concidine of St. Michael's remembers Farley's asking whether "we still had the Mass every Tuesday. I assured him that we do, and he said he would try to get back here." Then the actor made his way to the nearby Old Town Ale House, where he drank...
...living usually get away with lying until they're in the limelight. Federal Judge James Ware often told the moving tale of how his younger brother Virgil was gunned down by two white teenagers right before his eyes, an event that occurred on the day in 1963 that four black girls were killed when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Ala. He called the death a defining experience that made him "hungry for justice." Last month he withdrew his nomination to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Virgil Ware was killed all right, but he was no relation...
...Lama has written with typical warmth about his unworldly boyhood in the cold, dark, thousand-room Potala Palace, playing games with the palace sweepers, rigging up a hand-cranked projector on which he could watch Tarzan movies and Henry V, and clobbering his only real playmate--his immediate elder brother Lobsang Samten--serene in the knowledge that no one would readily punish a boy regarded as the incarnation of the god of compassion. Yet the dominant characteristic of his childhood was its loneliness. Often, he recalls, he would go onto the rooftop of his palace and watch the other boys...