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Last year Abouhalima's mother-in-law spent two weeks with the couple, who had by then moved to Newark. Mahmud made every effort to improve the relationship. "He tried to please," Hildegard Weber recalls. "But they wouldn't show me their friends. They knew I was distrustful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Life of Mahmud the Red | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

Marianne seemed stunned at her mother's question. Mahmud was not even a known suspect at the time. She answered her mother with a sarcastic expression, chiding her for blaming Muslims. But Abouhalima's mother-in-law had reason to be wary. Since eloping in 1985, Marianne had ruled out a visit to Germany because her immigration status would prevent her from returning to America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Life of Mahmud the Red | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...goal games are the proverbial mother-in-law the Harvard women's hockey team...

Author: By Geoffrey J. Hoffman, | Title: W. Hockey Tops Yale, 2-1 | 2/18/1993 | See Source »

...Navaraj, Locke Ober, Winter Pl. "I'm going to my mother-in-law's house where she'll make smoked codfish and potatoes--she's from Portugal, I'm from Thailand. We don't eat turkey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Moment | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...degree withdrawn from his sons. The boys palpably adore their mother, who lavishes time and affection on them. Was the Morton book not the impetuous blowout it seems to be but a prelude to divorce? In her more florid moments, Diana has said she may never be Queen. (A current story around London is that if Elizabeth II lives another 20 years, Charles may stand aside in favor of William.) But Diana has reportedly told the Queen she would never let her down, and her mother-in-law's commands are the only ones she follows unfailingly. The late Earl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocks on The Royal Road | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

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