Word: cousin
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...After high school, Houghton followed the footsteps of many family members, enrolling as a student at Harvard College. The family had a long history with the University, with its name gracing the rare book library—which opened in 1942 after a donation by James’s cousin Arthur...
When Heather Gillman, a normally reserved junior at Ponce de Leon High School in the Florida Panhandle, found out that her openly lesbian cousin, a ninth grader, had been suspended, along with 10 other students, for expressing support of a lesbian senior who claimed to have been harassed, the straight 17-year-old was outraged. Gillman responded to the suspensions - and the claim that the students had committed "illegal organizing" - by wearing a rainbow T-shirt and her cousin's rainbow belt to school. But soon after, when the school board prohibited expressions supporting equal rights for gay people...
...have a relationship with your cousin, composer Philip Glass? David Potosky, MINNEAPOLIS...
...could learn the industry from the ground up. They were slightly perplexed, but I seemed passionate, so they tried their best to hide it (“How about restaurant consulting?” they asked. No, no). I began pursuing the dream by stalking every friend of a cousin of a friend I could get my hands on. They, too, were often perplexed—“You seem to be right on the road to a fantastic career in journalism. Why not pursue that?” they asked. I crafted an answer and a cover letter...
...wedding, you may recall, was attacked by deatheaters. But this wedding night was uneventful - even the lights of the Druze and Arab villages twinkled benignly in the hills. At one point in the evening, a gregarious Lubavitcher named Shalom Pasternak, who sings in a band he created with my cousin called Kabbalah Dream Orchestra, was helping my cousin dispense shots of whisky and blessings to his friends and family. With his beautiful bride, and - let's face it - some fascinating friends, he was every bit the Half-Blood Prince. We were all glad to see it, wizard and muggle alike...