Word: cousin
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...handed him. "The most dangerous thing," he chortled, "is Democrats with money." Eunice and her television-star daughter Maria, Schwarzenegger's wife, were working the driveway, where people were arriving by the hundreds. And over by the rented pony ride, a Today show camera crew was trailing Maria's cousin, the woman everyone expects to be the next Governor of Maryland. "We really come from a wonderful family," said Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend...
...pipe loads in exotic Laos may seem, too many visits to the O-man, coupled with a genetic disposition to substance abuse, can leave travelers with a nascent addiction that can cause problems once they return to Toronto or Tokyo?where opium is scarce but its more addictive chemical cousin heroin is readily available. Local Lao addicts seldom try to stop?and when they are occasionally picked up by the Vang Viang police, they are usually released from the corrugated-steel jail after a few hours because the cops can't stand listening to their cries. Guidebooks stress that narco...
...school year. Ewan “come what may” MacGregor, his smile beaming and eyes twinkling, bewitched me into thinking that Hollywood-style, their-eyes-met-across-a-crowded-room love, or at least its sweaty-knockin’-boots-meet-me-in-the-back-alley step-cousin lust, was waiting just around the corner. (At the intersection of “I will always love you” and “Me so horny,” to be exact.) I had fooled myself into thinking that a summer at Harvard would be equivalent...
...Then the bubble burst, and the stocks went south, and the commission-taking investment bankers seemed like the only ones who'd gotten permanently rich. Wall Street watchers felt betrayed. Congress started sniffing around. FORTUNE (corporate cousin to this publication) ran a cover with a decidedly unflattering picture of Morgan Stanley interent analyst Mary Meeker, the most spectacularly fallen of the analyst stars, above the caption "Can We Ever Trust Wall Street Again...
...Among the first through that new door for the coming season were ? once again ? Yorkin and Lear. This time they have a spin-off from "Family" called "Maude," and already it ranks as one of the fall's top prospects. Maude is Edith Bunker's cousin who lives somewhere in upstate New York. As played by the formidable (5 ft. 9 in.), husky-contral-toed Beatrice Arthur, she may do for liberal suburban matrons what Archie has done for urban hardhats...