Word: fathered
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When he appeared for breakfast on Tuesday, Chernomyrdin spent a few minutes chatting with Albright in Russian, one of six languages she understands, about her days in Belgrade as a child when her father was the Czechoslovak ambassador. She described meeting Tito, giving him flowers. Chernomyrdin argued that the Russians would not publicly support anything the Serbs opposed. That was absurd, she told him bluntly. The Russian role should be to push the Serbs, not merely convey their positions. The U.S. insistence on a NATO-led force was a matter not of theology but of practicality: everyone agreed the Kosovars...
Indeed, Kosovo has illustrated how much Albright's outlook and style are rooted in her personal history. Her father, the wartime Czechoslovak diplomat Josef Korbel, was witty and gregarious, with a knack for survival. Madeleine, who as a child spent two lonely years in Belgrade when he was ambassador there, developed an instinctive antipathy toward thugs. As TIME's Ann Blackman explains in her Albright biography, Seasons of Her Life (Scribner), she mirrors him: she has a deep reservoir of intelligence and wit, but sometimes seems to wear blinders to protect her from things that clash with her self-image...
...when her father died in 1988, leaving her a comfortable inheritance and naming her the sole executor of his will, Schupf began to evolve into a different woman. She returned to college and earned a B.A. in women's studies. And in 1992 she started a family foundation with a multimillion-dollar endowment. She wanted the foundation to encourage women in science but was told by research institutions that the more important work was being done by men. Schupf persisted, contributing $1.5 million for a female science professor's post at Skidmore College in New York State and funding...
Zeffirelli gives a funny and poignant account of the influence of three women on Luca Innocenti, a boy whose mother has died and father has handed over to the care of an elderly British woman, Mary Wallace. Mary, played by Joan Plowright, forges a close bond with Luca. She teaches him how to be a perfect English gentleman and shares with him the loss of her father and fiance in World...
Zeffirelli gives a funny and poignant account of the influence of three women on Luca Innocenti, a boy whose mother has died and father has handed over to the care of an elderly British woman, Mary Wallace. Mary, played by Joan Plowright, forges a close bond with Luca. She teaches him how to be a perfect English gentleman and shares with him the loss of her father and fiance in World...