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Peter Flood, the hero, is a labor racketeer because that is the family business. His slick cousin Michael is a union boss in South Philadelphia, where, as the author tells it, the Irish run the unions and the Italians own the streets. Peter's life is haunted by the death of his baby sister when he was eight. He was taking care of her on a cold day when a savage neighborhood dog ran to meet its master's car, the car skidded on ice, the baby girl ran toward the car, and Peter was too frightened...
...generation, families wander through clouds of shared images, miasmas of memory, occlusions of oral remembrances. What is recalled of clan history is imprecise, simply because the stories take on shapes imposed by each teller. Sometimes, however, a family will be lucky, and an aunt, an uncle or a cousin will be able to re-create the past with a precision that makes the narrative virtually incontestable, a true copy of what has gone before. That is the nature of Jung Chang's mesmerizing memoir. With a calm that suggests infallibility, she tells the story of her mother and her maternal...
...cousin to marijuana, a pill called Marinol which contains marijuana's actived ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), has been available in the U.S. since 1985. But most doctors and activists agree that the substance is slower-acting and less effective when swallowed. Harris says that in her case, "marinol does absolutely nothing...
However, Ames's cousin Andrew Ames '95, a Hollis Hall resident, commented that "Massholes" is "a fitting name" for the residents of the dorm...
...Carnevale was my boss's cousin. Apparently, she was a nice kid. Sometimes, senseless things happen to real people...