Word: father-in-law
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...address was the 57th annual Edwin L.Godkin Lecture. The lecture series was endowed in1903 by the founding editor of The Nation.Past speakers have included other former Harvardpresidents and outstanding thinkers and writers,including Bok's father-in-law, Gunnar Mydral
There is a love story behind this timeworn document--a story of devotion, commitment and family. Drafted by my grandfather nearly seven decades ago, the letter asked his future father-in-law for my grandmother's hand in marriage...
...only for those interested in keeping baseball in Seattle. Despite lip service to the contrary, local ownership has never been a priority for Major League baseball, as was demonstrated again in the flap created by Minoru Arakawa's nationality. He and the potential investor--Nintendo, owned by his father-in-law--are Japanese...
...Sutherland, it was a bittersweet homecoming. Even as he learned that his 88-year-old father-in-law had died just two days earlier, he received word that one of his three daughters was about to give birth. Sutherland seemed forgiving of his captors, allowing, "I don't think they really thoroughly understand what they were doing to us, putting those chains back on our legs every day." Although he appeared healthy, the discovery of an ulcer at week's end delayed his return...
Humphry proudly asserts that he has assisted three family members in ending their lives when they faced intolerable pain or debilitation: a brother whose life-support machinery was disconnected and a wife and father-in-law who took sleeping pills. A former journalist with the London Sunday Times and Los Angeles Times, he now makes his living promoting the right to die. He is the author of three previous books on the subject and founder and executive director of the Hemlock Society, a group based in Oregon that claims 38,000 dues-paying members. Its motto: "Death with Dignity...