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...This is extraordinary writing?tender and wise, stripped of the inessential. Its power rivals those apocalyptic scenes in A Fine Balance and is all the more impressive, given the intimate scale. Family Matters needs to stray no further than the Vakeel clan and their apartments to find actors and stage for an affecting drama...
...Camorra crime syndicate led to an explosion of female violence that was unprecedented for the Italian Mob. After exchanging slaps and threats at the local Lauro di Nola beauty parlor last Sunday, several female relatives from the Graziano family cornered a carload of women from the Cava clan and opened fire with automatic weapons. Three of the Cava women were killed and two were seriously wounded. After toasting their success with male relatives, the Graziano women were taken into custody by local police whose wiretaps had captured many details of the episode. Beyond such senseless bloodletting, more women are moving...
...Brazilian jiujitsu pro, expertly overcame 210-lb. wrestler Ken Shamrock, stunning pay-per-view audiences for the first Ultimate Fighting Championship, held in Denver. That match put Brazilian jiujitsu in the ring and on the map. It also gave the U.S. its initial glimpse of the Gracie clan. Royce's father Helio Gracie and his uncle Carlos Gracie spawned the fighting style in Brazil. Today their charismatic descendants--Gracie brothers, cousins and uncles--travel the world teaching regular folks how to win by bringing opponents down to earth. --By Janice M. Horowitz
...would have been born if not for sex-based abortions and female infanticide. Sons are valued far more than daughters in China because males maintain the family line and care for parents when they grow old. Girls, on the other hand, leave their parents' home for their husband's clan when they marry. In China's poorest villages, fathers don't even count their daughters when asked how many children they have. "Two strong sons," says a millet farmer surnamed Yang when asked about his family. As an afterthought, he adds: "Two donkeys. A pig. And one daughter...
...disabilities. Brothers share one wife. The most desperate of all, though, are those who marry members of their own family. Pretty girls who could have their pick of men in the cities are instead told they must stay home and marry internally-all for the good of their family clan...