Word: clan
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...poll revealed that 40% of the people backing Bush thought they were voting for the hero of the Gulf War. It was nice that Barbara had consistently topped the list of most popular women in the country and that the focus groups found people had warm memories of the clan--"Nice family. Honest. Decent." But too much emphasis on the family tie could do more harm than good...
Four decades and five Oscars later, Baker, 49, is still making the impossible believable. In this week's Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Baker again transforms Eddie Murphy into the Klump clan. In November he helps Jim Carrey give a Bronx cheer to the holidays in Ron Howard's live-action comedy Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Next year Baker creates an entire simian society in a remake of Planet of the Apes, with Mark Wahlberg. Baker calls it "a film I was born...
Raekwon is a member of the Wu-Tang Clan, which begins its tour on July 24. The rap group's new album comes out later this year...
...Elian Gonzalez's grandmas informed us this year, their clan sometimes displays affection by nibbling on each other. So when Elian's grandfather Juan Gonzalez scooped the boy into his arms last week at Havana's Jose Marti Airport, he kissed him and joyfully urged him, "Bite my ear, hard!" Elian shyly buried his head in Juan's neck, then revealed to his Cuban kin why he couldn't chomp on his abuelo's lobe: he had lost his two front baby teeth during the final weeks of his seven-month-long stay...
...Although it's hardly a democracy, power in Syria is a complicated construct given the fact that the Assad clan, and most of its governing elite, are drawn from the ethnic Alawite minority rather than the Sunni Muslim majority, as well as the fact that the primary guarantor of power is not the electorate or even the ruling party, but the military, which propelled Hafez Assad to power in 1970 as a young air force officer at the head of a peaceful coup. Assad proved a masterful strategist, managing his country's internal power struggles, regional conflicts and the Cold...