Word: kinship
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Rauch remembers that he did eventually vote for Hornstein at the officer elections that Sunday--more out of a sense of solidarity than anything else. The two had just been named among the four "progressive" first-year representatives endorsed by the Perspective--and Rauch felt a form of kinship with the fellow liberal...
...jeopardy after losing its majority in the Upper House last July, can hold on to control of the government it has dominated for 35 years. But the prevalence of the nisei giin, or second- ^ generation politicians, has raised fears that Japanese politics is increasingly being restricted to an elite kinship network...
...have a very great feeling of respect and kinship to both of them, although in different ways. I am closer to Tolstoy in the form of the narrative, of the delivery of material, the variety of characters and circumstances. But I am closer to Dostoyevsky in my understanding of the spiritual interpretation of history...
...Haliwa-Sapani--who have Black, Native American and European ancestors--were classified as mulatto in the early 19th century, but after the Civil War "the social significance of being mulatto was taken away," and the kinship group began to be classified as Black, McClain said...
...them are on display at the money show: the Astute Investor, the Busy Investor, the Patient Investor, the Contrary Investor, the Cheap Investor and so on. Most of them are solo operations, and one editor describes them unabashedly as the "alternative press" of the era. The wished-for kinship is not with some Age of Aquarius tabloid, of course, but with pamphleteers like Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton. The newsletter gurus see themselves as disabusers of Wall Street myth, as missionaries of economic truth. Since readers can lose big money if their guru is wrong, the work is fraught with...