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...there is one area of promise: angel investing, which in the past has also been known as investing with friends, family and fools. If you ever cut Cousin Lou a check to finance his tattoo parlor, you know what I mean. But angel investing has come a long way in recent years, enabling well-heeled and business-savvy investors to get a meaningful stake on the ground floor of a variety of promising start-ups. Although Cousin Lou may tempt you with free tattoos (think of the possibilities), you can get stakes in a dozen or so new companies vetted...
...Teddy Kennedy. But the Massachusetts Senator added, "I'm a Democrat, and I don't support the recall effort." But Schwarzenegger has never tied his fortunes, political or otherwise, to those of his famous in-laws. When Shriver threw an outdoor party at their house for Teddy and her cousin Caroline Kennedy during the 2000 Democratic convention in Los Angeles, Schwarzenegger mingled for half an hour or so and then retreated inside. "That was not his crowd or his comfort zone," recalls one guest. "He views himself as much larger than the Kennedys in many ways...
...have no relation whatsoever with the old regime. Most of us were imprisoned and humiliated in Saddam's time," says Fallujah's Abu Bilal al-Fallujah, whose cousin launched at least two attacks on American convoys before he was killed in an explosion at the city's central mosque in June. "The problems started with the way the Americans ignored our ideas and customs. They humiliated us; they occupied our mosque. Of course, I will seek revenge if I am insulted...
...Winthrop said she is the senator’s first cousin once removed...
With kids who were recognizably kids and a hero dad with a goofy (i.e., human) streak, the movies underlined Rodriguez's sense of family: both his actual brood (his wife produces, his cousin Danny Trejo co-stars) and the local filmmaking community. (Mike Judge and Richard Linklater, two dons of the Austin movie Mafia, acted in the series...