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...windfall--invested in a tobacco boutique--makes it even harder for her to behave virtuously, with all the beggars, parasites, and unscrupulous MBA types hanging around. To keep the capitalist hounds at bay, she employs a lesson from The Importance of Being Earnest, disguising herself as her hardhearted cousin Shui Ta and executing all of the unpleasant duties of a businessman in his name...
...find himself the victim of a cruel paradox. Employers in the area have put out the word that those returning from the U.S. need not apply. Their attitude is summed up by Ignacio Manriquez, 26, Jorge's cousin, who employs about 80 people on six pig farms in and around Huandacareo. "They get used to the big money they make in the U.S.," he says. "They see they won't make in a day what they were getting in an hour up there. And the first time there's a problem, they say, 'You can take this job and shove...
...characters than social types, as their names reveal. A young man, simply called the Groom (Pier Carlo Talenti), is engaged to a young woman, the Bride (Kristen Gasser). The Bride was engaged years ago to Leonardo (Daniel Zelman), but they quarreled and broke the engagement, and Leonardo married her cousin, the Wife (Allison Brody...
Joining the attacks was Bakker's friend Oral Roberts, who warned without mentioning Swaggart by name that "Satan has put something in your heart that you're better than anybody else." At a Tennessee nightclub Swaggart's cousin, Rock 'n' Roller Jerry Lee Lewis, leaped to the defense: "Jimmy Swaggart don't have to lie about nothing." After some tensions, Falwell agreed that Swaggart had "no designs...
...right about the girl's underdeveloped intellect, but he does not recognize her ability to learn, as her cousin Sasha will later write her in a letter, "through your skin." Hillela is a blank slate: "For me," she says, "everything happens for the first time." She does not, for instance, think that her people, the whites, are necessarily better than the blacks. Since she is free of such preconceptions, she can travel easily and lightly through Africa, a place where old rules are crumbling or no longer apply...