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...Kistner had given up hope of ever finding his great-aunt's killer. The retired police sergeant was just a rookie at the Long Beach Police Department in California when Maybelle Hudson, 80, was beaten, raped and strangled in her Inglewood garage after returning home from choir practice one day in April 1976. The last time Kistner called detectives at the Inglewood Police Department, in 2006, he was told that given the amount of time that had passed since the twice-widowed woman was murdered, the perpetrator was likely deceased or in prison...
...York City-based research and consulting firm, found that 15% of men and women said they would stay home this Valentine's Day, nearly four times as many as in 2008. Consumers also told the company they'd share gifts with fewer friends and family members. "Your great-aunt may not get something this year," says Robert Passikoff, the president of Brand Keys. "You may not give a card to your neighbor. Valentine's Day will go back to resonating with core family and significant others. If you do that, it's easy to save...
...shoe at President Bush, said the disenchanted Republican. To celebrate the fact that anything is possible, said the Apache from Arizona. Some people brought with them mementos of those who could not come. Jenny Allen, a 38-year-old fundraiser from West Virginia, wore a laminated picture of her great-aunt, an elegant lady in a double strand of pearls who fought for civil rights years ago. "Peggy Ewing Waxter, 1904-2007," Allen said. "She would have loved this day." (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time...
Sitting in her spacious single in the Jordan section of Pforzheimer House, Tamara Jafar ’09 talks to her great-aunt in Baghdad on the phone. Her mind travels to the house she shares with several other relatives...
Although Jafar’s great-aunt does not speak English, she does say, “I love...