Word: mother
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...hasn't quite worked out that way. While Klobuchar's 80-year-old mother is an ardent Clinton supporter and her adolescent daughter is "all about Barack," the Senator voted for Obama. "He has transcended traditional politics," she says...
...parents would have been proud--even if she strayed from their vision for Israel. When Livni accepted a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, she got a call from her ultra-Zionist mother Sarah: "This hurts me to say this, but we didn't fight for the state of Israel for our generation but for all generations to come. This is about your generation, and I trust your decision." After Sarah's death seven months ago, Livni found out that her mother's old comrades had turned against her because her daughter had betrayed the Zionist dream. A friend...
Teremok began in the wake of the 1998 financial crisis. The name, suggested by Goncharov's mother, who is the company's head chef, translates roughly as "Fairy-Tale Cottage," and the company's rise has been something of a Cinderella story. When the Russian stock market crashed in August 1998, Goncharov lost the electronics-distribution business he had started. "For the first month, I was really sad," said Goncharov, who was born in Kazakhstan and studied mathematics at Moscow State University. "Then I decided I have to start a new company." Earlier that year he had visited London...
...this way, Harvard can be thought of as the mother of all hedge funds—composed of students who are perpetually hedging their bets. One only wonders, when all is said and done, whether there'll be a corner of their soul that hasn't been hedged into oblivion...
...mother in Kansas City who bundled her kids up at night with coats and hats because there was no heat and said to her children, "Don't tell the people at school or they'll take you away." I saw it in the great man I met in Virginia who went 50 years without speaking because he had no health insurance to correct a simple problem. He was so grateful and humble when someone fixed it for free and he could tell his story...