Word: kinships
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...much to display his expertise as to relieve the man's pain. He will do anything to achieve his objective: lead a suicide mission or send his rival on one; murder a village woman in cold blood or taunt his men toward murdering him. Chris, who feels an irresistible kinship to both men, says they were "fighting for possession of my soul." The film's most controversial question...
...society legitimates the practice, does it imperil its most venerable notions of kinship? Or if surrogacy is prohibited, are childless couples denied a way to realize the most venerated purpose of their union? Such issues are central to a New Jersey trial in which a judge must answer the most searing question of all: Whose child is this...
...decision is almost certain to be appealed. Yet even when the final court has its final say, the echoes of Whitehead's anguished question will still hang in the air. If a society legitimates surrogacy, what has it done? Has it imperiled its most venerable notions of kinship and the bond between mother and child? Has it opened the way to a dismal baby industry, in which well-to-do couples rent out the wombs of less affluent women, sometimes just to spare themselves the inconvenience of pregnancy? Yet if surrogacy is prohibited, has a promising way for childless couples...
...June Carter, and her late mother Maybelle, and his daughter Rosanne. Now, as fans of the Miss America contest know, there is his grandniece Kellye Cash. Her singing selections in the talent competition ran more to pop and the blues, but the 1987 Miss America would hardly deny her kinship for country crooning. During a homecoming celebration in Jackson, Tenn., Kellye, 21, got onstage for the first time with Great-Uncle Johnny, 54, and doubled up on a hit of his called Jackson. They had a little trouble getting it rehearsed right, said the old pro. "That's my part...
...Vassar), Nancy Gibbs (Yale) and Zona Sparks (University of Chicago). Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, a Yale graduate who edited the cover stories, discounts any talk of brisk competition between Harvard and his alma mater. Says Porterfield: "The Macy's-Gimbels rivalry thing is a big bore. There is more kinship between Harvard and Yale than between Harvard and any other university. In these days when others are challenging our supremacy, Harvard and Yale ought to draw together against the upstarts...