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...DIED. RACHEL KEMPSON, 92, British theater, film and TV actress and matriarch of the Redgrave family of actors; in New York City. Kempson, who started her stage life in 1933, achieved wide acclaim for her TV role as Lady Manners in the 1980s hit drama The Jewel in the Crown. During her career she also acted alongside various family members and made her film debut opposite her husband, Michael Redgrave, in the 1941 comedy Jeannie...
Heavy-metal matriarch SHARON OSBOURNE appeared on Celebrity Justice (yes, that's a real TV show) flashing bruises she says she got in a scuffle at an L.A. restaurant with talent agent Renee Tab, 26, over a $15,000 necklace. "My ears hurt. My neck hurts. My teeth have to be redone," Osbourne said. Tab says she won the necklace at a New Year's Eve party Osbourne threw to celebrate renewing her wedding vows with husband Ozzy; Osbourne says Tab crashed the event and should return the gift. Police are investigating the altercation, which took place when the women...
Rather than selecting a fraternity matriarch, Sigma Chi, on the other hand, elects a “Sweetheart” to be the object of boyish admiration. Jean-Pierre R. Jacquet ’05, current Consul of the Harvard chapter, says that the ideal sweetheart is a girl who is cool and fun and who is friends with all of the members of the fraternity. As a result, the fraternity usually elects a long-term girlfriend of one of the brothers...
...Across the road the Noori family's house is all but empty. Crowded into a small room only seven members are left of an extended clan of more than twenty. Four men were chosen to stay behind to protect the building and watch over the family's elderly blind matriarch, too ill to move. The doors and windows are covered with plastic taped to the frames. A small yellow bird, like a finch, known locally as a "taral hob" or the bird of love, is kept in a cage just outside. "When it dies we know we might too," says...
...compulsion that drives her. Is it possible, I think to myself, that she does not know how ugly a beast she clasps so close to her breast?" After the Japanese rape and murder one of the daughters, the family starts to drift apart. Lakshmi grows into a formidable matriarch, towering over her scattered, resentful clan, eventually becoming the rice mother of the title: "The Giver of Life ? In Bali her spirit lives in effigies made out of sheaves of rice ? She is the keeper of dreams. Look carefully and you will see, she sits on her wooden throne holding...