Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old Dido has music in her family: her brother Rollo, 32, is the leader of the British trip-hop group Faithless. When Dido initially decided to pursue a musical career, Rollo warned her against it. "He basically said, 'Look, there are a million better singers than you in the world,'" says Dido. "He never saw it because he's my brother--and that's fair enough. He's sort of come round to the idea, and of course now he's passionately behind...
...despite the "De" he affected, was not of noble blood--had married a French-Creole woman from New Orleans, Celestine Musson. She produced three sons and two daughters, of whom Edgar was the oldest. They were all raised in Paris, but both of Edgar's younger brothers, Rene and Achille, emigrated to New Orleans and went into the Musson family business, the cotton trade. Rene went back to Paris on business and persuaded his artist brother to go on a visit to New Orleans...
...Mack has labor troubles. He summons Ned, as he has been doing since high school. Retribution explodes in the blast of a gun. Daisy, a figure strong enough to have been limned by Faulkner, suspects what has happened and acknowledges her life. She says, "Ned's my brother...
Talk of his departure heightened when Ballmer formed an inner circle of executives, the Business Leadership Team, and Myhrvold wasn't on it. Moreover, his brother Cameron, with whom he founded Dynamical Systems Inc., which Gates bought in 1986, recently left the company...
...author of the stunning Regeneration trilogy clearly has still more to say about World War I. Geordie, 101, on his deathbed, is haunted by visions of the trenches and the death of his brother. His grandson Nick, who is nursing him, is struggling instead with one of the modern age's versions of warfare, a cobbled together, dysfunctional family. Nick moves between his grandfather's past and his own unsettled present wondering about survival. But Barker's faith in the power of redemption lets her, and the reader, down: the hasty if elegiac conclusion promises a peace that...