Word: fatherness
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...being confronted with an unfathomable crime.' GUENTHER PLATTER, Austrian Interior Minister, on the rescue of a 42-year-old woman who was kept in a cellar and sexually abused by her father for 24 years...
...months while he searches hospital by hospital for some relief, but dragging his uninsured family into debt when they should be benefiting from India's economic boom. Together, Abhishek's parents - his mother Sunita is a clerk in a local government office in the northern city of Farrukhabad, his father Sunil works in a small clothes shop - make just under $200 a month, no fortune but enough to buy a small TV for their modest home. They would have bought a motorbike too, Sunil says, perhaps even a patch of land somewhere, were it were not for the hospital bills...
...hope you will delve deeper than this glossed-over fairy tale about Barack Obama's upbringing and take up his invitation to address the substantive issues presented in his biography. The article neglects to mention that Obama's father had children by four women and that he abandoned each of them in succession. Its odd statement that S. Ann Soetoro "decided not to follow" Obama's father back to Kenya neatly overlooks the fact that he was returning to Kenya (and his Kenyan wife and children) with an American wife whom he had married in Massachusetts after he left...
...jeans, soil-smeared shirt, and high wellie farming boots as he crosses the strawberry patch to greet us. Jim and brother Bob, both self-described “tree huggers,” have quietly developed Wards Berry Farm into a 150-acre experiment in sustainable agriculture since their father bought the land just outside Boston in 1981. Now their farm could become the newest supplier to Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) as Harvard seeks out green food sources...
...pursue music as a career, Redman realized that it was time to fill the holes in his technique and started to buckle down. Until that point, Redman had been almost entirely self-taught. He grew up in Berkeley, Calif. with his mother, a dancer named Renee Shedroff. His father, though, was legendary jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman.Dewey was more a musical influence on Redman than a parental influence. Redman grew up listening to his records and seeing his father’s gigs when he played in San Francisco. When Redman decided to go into music, it was his mother...