Word: daughter-in-law
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...glows that impresses people. "She has a light in her eyes that is very alive, alert and interested," says Carole Dell. "It radiates over her whole face. Her face is kind of timeless. It's deeply lined, but she's actually beautiful." Spoken like a proud daughter-in-law with 96 reasons to be proud. Ninety-six and counting...
...Your mother-in-law does not sound like a sympathetic character. But she's old and sick. So what's a daughter-in-law to do? Relationships with our parents are tough--and even more difficult when children just don't like their parents, a situation more common than many people admit. Your husband needs to respond in a way that makes him feel good about himself, as a person and a son. He's done the dutiful thing all these years, and you seem to respect his efforts, even though he has received little in return. But he shouldn...
When Westerinen met her black cousins at the Hemings reunion in 1999 she was finally able to embrace her biracial heritage. "My life has changed a lot," says Westerinen, an artist, who lives with her husband, son, daughter-in-law and 11-year-old granddaughter in a gray-shingled house with white trim in Staten Island, N.Y. She organized the first Hemings reunion, in July 2003, and has joined up with Shay Banks-Young, who is black and descended from Madison Hemings, to give talks about race relations. "I have a new mission in life, which is to expose...
...from prominent politicians. But then, not every country can have such drama-packed politics as India. First the incumbent prime minister and his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party were trounced by India’s Congress party, under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born wife and daughter-in-law of two former prime ministers. Then Gandhi declared that she would decline the post she had just won, prompting members of her party to descend on her home in droves, some of them writing letters in their own blood urging her to change her mind, others threatening to commit...
...families pay fees of at least $25,000. But sometimes getting across the border isn't enough. Jeon Yong Il, another South Korean POW who worked in a mine for decades, swam across the Tumen River into China last June along with his North Korean son, daughter-in-law and her mother. But when the group asked for help at the South Korean embassy in Beijing, they were told the Ministry of Defense couldn't find Jeon's name on its POW list. Jeon was arrested by the Chinese and nearly sent back to North Korea. South Korean activists played...