Word: father-in-law
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...Just as consequential, for Sunnis and anyone else who knows Iraqi history, Saddam's executioners shouted the name of Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Muqtada's father-in-law. Ayatollah Sadr, whom Saddam executed in 1980, is perhaps as responsible as Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini for modern, resurgent Shi'a Islam. Sadr founded the Da'wa Party, a violent, secretive organization committed to the creation of an Iraqi Shi'a Islamic republic - and today a political party that counts none other than Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as a member...
...years, said she attended for the entertainment. “I came because I wanted to see the Republicans get crushed,” she said. “All you have to do is see that one person has a brain and one person has a father-in-law.” Rumors have swirled that Firenze’s father-in-law, Angelo R. Firenze, a Belmont selectman, forced his daughter-in-law into the race to spite his fellow selectman Brownsberger. The elder Firenze responded to the claims, saying, “that’s bullshit...
Named after McCain's father-in-law, James Hensley, Jimmy is the lively, happy-go-lucky member of the clan, friends say. During the 2000 campaign, a Boston Globe reporter spotted Jimmy, then 11, chasing his older brother Jack around the house, calling him a "pork-barrel spender"--a deep cut in the McCain home. During that year, when McCain was on the road in New Hampshire, the candidate proudly read aloud from a school report on General George S. Patton Jr. by Jimmy that he had faxed to his father: "The Tanks Will Roll...
...full of promising comic notions, which are truncated rather than fully exploited and that forces him to run on niceness, not the desperation that might take him to full-scale dementia. When he does approach that state - as in a chase with a security guard at his father-in-law's office, the Russos don't really know how to develop it in more than routine ways...
...Given Blagojevich's record of family and political scandals - feuding with his alderman father-in-law and a federal investigation into pension and hiring irregularities - it's no wonder that many critics and pundits wonder if the Governor's lofty goals are just posturing. The state's record on education and children's well-being, after all, isn't much to brag about. The state has some of the top public schools in the country, but ranks near last overall in education funding. And while the group Kids Count reported this week that Illinois shot up from near bottom...