Word: clan
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...valley floor. More than 800 feet above the dusty camp, on the lush peak of Mount Gerizim, a monumental structure is rising, half Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, half Taj Mahal. It is the new home of a leading member of the Masri family, the most powerful and wealthy clan in Nablus. It is a reminder, too, of the differences between the unruly refugee camp and the Palestinian metropolis in the West Bank, and a symbol of the extreme tensions that exist within Palestinian society, riven these days between rich and poor, Christian and Muslim and dozens of other fractures. Even...
McGuckin and her family were dedicated recluses on the outskirts of Sandpoint, Idaho, a state noted for recluses. The clan chose to meet with few people, mostly charity workers, from whom they had collected food baskets a couple of times a month since 1998. Michael had been unemployed since falling ill; no one else made a living; the water pump for their decrepit home near Lake Pend Oreille had broken down. The kids, Sheriff Phil Jarvis believes, subsisted on lake water and "lily-pad soup." But even JoAnn knew to seek out Coffelt on that May 12. After...
...take after George W. Bush for his policy on taxes. It's less fair to take after him for his policy on his daughters, especially since we don't know what that policy is. The weekend at Camp David was going to be hard enough for the extended Bush clan without a couple of hundred nosy press people volunteering their uninformed opinions...
...police and political figures, Mexican authorities put them in jail. Into Tijuana roared the seven Arellano brothers, including the handsome Benjamin, their CEO; chubby Ramon, the enforcer; finance-whiz Eduardo, 44, the money launderer; and the eldest, Francisco, 51, the gregarious, cross-dressing pitchman who, say officials, cemented the clan's top-drawer political and police alliances, usually out of his Mazatlan discotheque, Frankie...
...take after George W. Bush for his policy on taxes. It's less fair to take after him for his policy on his daughters, especially since we don't know what that policy is. The weekend at Camp David was going to be hard enough for the extended Bush clan without a couple of hundred nosy press people volunteering their uninformed opinions...