Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homecoming could not have got off to a more auspicious start. Returning to Pakistan after two years of self-imposed exile in London, the daughter of the country's last elected Prime Minister arrived in ancient Lahore, the home of the Punjabis, who dominate the military and bureaucratic elite that rules Pakistan. The political risk paid handsome dividends. Benazir Bhutto, 32, was greeted by hundreds of thousands of frenzied supporters, who enveloped her motorcade and staged a daylong demonstration that was the largest display in memory of discontent with the military government of President Mohammed...
...simply throwing her in jail or placing her under house arrest. This time the President is clearly trying to avoid resorting to such authoritarian measures. "I will rule this country from my grave," predicted the charismatic Zulfikar Ali Bhutto before going to the gallows. Last week, at least, his daughter seemed determined to prove him right...
...hillside Dublin mansion of John Guinness, a local banker related to the celebrated clan of brewers. After ringing the doorbell, three hooded men, brandishing guns, forced their way into the house and began ransacking it for valuables. Then they started to make off with Guinness's daughter Gillian, 23, before acceding to the request of her mother Jennifer that they take her instead. As the hoods left, they demanded a $2.6 million ransom...
Osbourn, who graduated from Harvard Law in 1970, wrote The Paper Chase as a largely autobiographical portrayal of the anxiety and tension of his 1 L career. In the novel and film, Hart falls in love with the daughter of his arrogant professor, Charles W. Kingsfield Jr., played in the series by John Houseman. Osbourn admits that the show is "not an accurate reflection of Harvard Law School. It's Paper Chase Law School. It's our law school. I like Harvard better, but I'm very fond of the other...
...Never Can Tell can be thought of as a nightmare version of the Brady Bunch: what happens when a famous author and her three children encounter the husband she left 18 years earlier. Throw in the one of the daughter's complicated courtship by a penniless dentist, and you'll have most of the plot...