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...There is an assumption that if you are a member of color, you are of a particular party,” he said. “The Democrats and the Republicans are more diverse than the McCarthy clan of the Midwest...
...head toward the door, suggesting that the top officials gathered for this Security Council meeting should leave. It's not quite the calm, authoritative image the Russian President likes to project, but these days Putin often seems rattled. In an appearance on Russian TV last week, he warned of "clan struggles" that could plague the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, after its crucial elections on Dec. 7. Putin's nervousness is strange, because his popularity has skyrocketed to 82% since the October arrest of oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovsky - the Russian public loves it when a billionaire gets...
...talk of the department. Sharing a mutual love of music and chemistry, Justin quickly formed a relationship as a first-year with the then senior lecturer and freshmen adviser in the Chemistry department, Jim Davis (who retired a year and a half ago). The precociousness of the McCarty clan was not unknown to Davis, however, who also acted as a mentor to McCarty’s older brother, Logan. Logan attended Harvard College as a chemistry concentrator, and had gone on to TF Chem 5 and Chem 7 while a Chemistry graduate student at Harvard. Davis suggested to Justin that...
...unique and intimate alliance of the boyish and eccentric photographer Jacques Lowe, then 26, and the Kennedy clan, the most power-hungry and wealthy family on the national stage, was at first unnoticed. But as it began in the mid-1950s, the Kennedy-Lowe relationship helped define, more than any record of the period, the Jack and Jackie Kennedy mythology. Lowe's Remembering Jack, which appears on the eve of the 40th anniversary of J.F.K.'s death, is in many ways the most complete account of that youthful political insurgency and the magic it left behind...
...when I’m breaking in a new sweater, making it my own, I like to think of the Irish patterns I used to knit when I was younger. I read with fascination about the history of these cable patterns: each one belonged to a particular clan. They wore these patterns not to much to display their family identity—although doubtless that was part of it—but primarily to feel connected to this larger community, to this family whose marks literally made up the material in which they were living and working...