Word: mother-in-law
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...Coleman before the trial, Coleman stated that he and another man raped Wanda, then the other man killed her. After offering up this story a year later at Coleman's trial, Matney was released from serving the remainder of four concurrent four-year prison sentences. Later Matney's mother-in-law claimed that he had admitted to making it all up, which he in turn denied...
...elbowed, stepped on, spit on and called Satan's mistress," says Marina Clemente, 26, who unwittingly entered a pro-life sandwich shop and found herself "verbally abused" by 20 patrons once she revealed her views. Others have been drawn closer together. "This is about the only thing my mother-in-law and I agree on," says Patricia Beltz, 36, as she waves a pro-choice placard in front of one of the clinics...
...could no longer maintain that low profile after his mother-in-law, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, defeated the Sandinistas and became President of Nicaragua in April 1990. Lacayo, who served as Chamorro's campaign director, immediately began shaping the new administration; according to insiders, he picked the President's Cabinet and made the controversial decision to retain Sandinista General Humberto Ortega Saavedra as head of the armed forces. Lacayo's official title is Minister of the Presidency, but some feel he might as well be called Mr. Presidency. "Dona Violeta conferred absolute power on Antonio from the beginning," says...
...phony papers identifying him as a citizen of Qatar. "That's what saved me," says Basa, recalling the story he had carefully rehearsed against the possibility of capture. "I told the Iraqis that I was just another expatriate who had worked in Kuwait. I told them that my mother-in-law was a Kuwaiti, that she was ill, and that I wanted to bring her out for medical treatment at 'home' in Qatar. There was nothing to say otherwise. I had nothing on me, and the truck was empty. I was the decoy, and no one could prove...
Meet Philip Ruckdeschel, 68, a disabled mechanic who lives with his wife, his 78-year-old mother-in-law and three children in Sloansville, N.Y. (pop. 200). In 1986, Ruckdeschel handed his family's savings, roughly $150,000, to Joseph Ventura, a sales rep from First Investors Corp., one of the country's largest managers of junk-bond mutual funds. Four years later, Ruckdeschel estimates his total losses at $75,000 but doesn't know the exact figure because at each sales call, Ventura would toss out the old records. "He never said anything about any risk -- just that...