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...three brothers had a dream," says Fontenot, "to become professionals, buy a building and practice there together." Ford's elder brother James Britt is an attorney, and his younger brother Sekou is a doctor, but, says Fontenot, "Lumumba's ideas about who he wanted to be when he grew up changed. His goals were more related to his heart." His family expected that his future would involve aiding Muslim charities and studying the Koran. The U.S. saw his future in terrorism. Now it's with the courts. --With reporting by Hannah Beech/Shanghai, Simon Elegant/Kuala Lumpur and Polly Forster and Nathan...
Along the way, Tartt tells the parallel story of the Ratliff family (Danny proves to be a pitiable sad sack, terrorized by his elder brother). The connections between the Ratliffs and Harriet's family make a kind of class history of the white South from Jefferson Davis to Lynyrd Skynyrd. If Tartt's tone softens a bit at the end, her unsentimental clarity avoids the feel-good coming-of-age-tale pitfalls that irritate Harriet. "She did not care for children's books in which the children grew up," Tartt writes, "as what 'growing up' entailed (in life...
...Sperling who worked under Stone at Harvard Management Company, Stone was “the driving force” behind the Harken deal and Harvard’s other energy investments. Stone has a variety of ties to the Bushes including a father in law who invested in the elder George Bush’s oil drilling ventures in the 1940s and a brother who was the US envoy to Cyprus during the first Reagan-Bush Administration, and a pattern of contributions to both the Reagan-Bush and Bush-Quayle’s presidential campaign. Although it is understandable that...
While Garcia certainly seems to be coming into his own, a twist was added to his story this fall as his younger brother, first-year linebacker, Gary, joined the Crimson. The elder Garcia is all-too excited to see his brother suit up next...
...piled on the two men, identified as WILLIAM LIGUE JR., 34, and his 15-year-old son. Security guards entered the fray and dragged the shirtless duo off the field, after which a folded pocket knife was found on the ground. As for motivation, besides utter stupidity, the elder Ligue suggested that he had exchanged words with Gamboa and that the coach had made an obscene gesture, a charge vehemently denied by Gamboa, who suffered cuts and bruises. He did discover the devotion he has earned from his players. "Security did a good job cleaning it up," Royals first baseman...