Word: cousin
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...Hung, whose cousin Christina Hung ’06 is also traveling to Beijing Normal University this summer on a Freeman grant, said she plans to remain in China next year in a regular study abroad program at Nanjing University...
What gives? Who is this “general public,” anyway? A distant cousin to notary publics, or a newly interpreted incarnation of Rousseau’s social contract? Is it some sort of populist organization? I’ve sure as hell never signed up for it. In fact, I’m a little scared by the whole idea. What kind of a general public purports to speak for everyone and then goes around contradicting itself? This reminds me a bit of what Groucho Marx said—“I don?...
During yesterday’s hearing, witnesses included a friend of Pring-Wilson’s who had spent time with him the night of the incident as well as Colono’s cousin and friend who witnessed the late-night altercation...
Samuel Rodriguez, Colono’s cousin who was present and participated in the fight between Colono and Pring-Wilson, said he observed that Pring-Wilson was intoxicated and stumbling...
...boiled down to one sentiment: a family business is the family's business. For decades top jobs at such companies have been passed down from fathers to sons and daughters, not to professional managers outside the clan. Profits have been used to shore up a sister (or cousin) company instead of going to shareholders. But if you talk to the patriarchs and scions of the families that own Asia, they will tell you that it is no longer business as usual. They have increasingly come under fire for inefficient, outmoded and nepotistic practices. One of the results...