Word: clan
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...first third of the book describes the gradual downfall of Solomon Dorai, the patriarch of the clan, in the fictional village of Chevathar, famous for its succulently sweet blue mangoes. After he dies in the early 1900s in a fateful clash between castes, his two sons leave home. One, the rebellious and violent Aaron, is a daredevil who eventually ends up joining the revolt against the British. The quiet elder brother Daniel takes another path: banished from the family for not fighting against the lower castes, he rejects politics, including Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement, and becomes a successful...
...name eBay conjures up Bongo the Monkey, Huggy the Bear and the rest of the Beanie Baby clan, you're about three years behind the times. Computer giant Sun Microsystems is listing up to 150 items a day on eBay, including e4500 servers that sell for as much as $15,000. eBay Motors, which launched last April, is the third biggest auto-sales site on the Internet. And eBay's new Business Exchange, which has listings for $6,000 backhoes and $25,000 lathes, has doubled its offerings in the past quarter...
...sales of PEOPLE magazine to the contrary). The Bushes probably aren't all that thrilled, then, that celebrity snoop KITTY KELLEY--whose previous tomes alleged that Frank Sinatra dallied with Nancy Reagan, young Queen Elizabeth had an insatiable sex drive and Princess Diana had halitosis--has decided to make clan Bush the target of her next major work. The as-yet-untitled epic will examine the family's history and, no doubt, will attempt to shed a bit more light on the still elusive 20 years George W. spent from his time at Yale to when he bought the Texas...
...Waiting to Exhale author takes a multiperspective view of dysfunctional families with each member of the Price clan giving his or her own version of how screwed up they all are. The telling is led by Viola, the know-it-all matriarch and glue who holds her estranged husband Cecil and four far-flung children together. Their heavy load--incest, substance abuse, poverty, infidelity, death--makes this a soap opera, but it is leavened with a big dollop of sass...
...slip back and forth across the Pakistan border, Afghan officials maintain. The new rulers of Khost are hosting and helping U.S. special forces, but their main concern is to restore their own power after decades in exile. They have made a good start. Seven brothers from the Zadran clan, aged from 17 to their late fifties, control the key positions of power in Khost and the whole of the two surrounding provinces of Paktia and Paktika. One brother, Amanullah Khan Zadran, looks after the family's affairs in Kabul where he is Minister of Tribal Affairs and Border Questions...