Word: mother
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...both know what it's like to have money - and to blow large sums of it. And yet ... "I couldn't imagine two more different people," says a Sydney lawyer who's worked closely with Lachlan Murdoch and James Packer over the years. "James has the softness of his mother, but he's extraordinarily numerate and has a bonhomie that he got from his old man. Lachlan is measured, reflective, highly intelligent. There's a hint of clean-cut, Princeton guilelessness about him, but there's also something behind those eyes that's constantly assessing." Different they...
...love to read, but the pleasure has always been mitigated by the uneasy sense that I should be doing something else, something more unambiguously productive,” photographer Moyra Davey writes in the introduction to the literary anthology “Mother Reader.” Davey, whose retrospective photographic exhibit “Long Life Cool White” is currently on display at the Fogg Art Museum, sought to remedy her unease by combining productivity and pleasure.Davey’s beloved books are everywhere in her photographs. They appear first in four oversized photographs of books...
...sauntered toward her restaurant and ordered some soup. It was the Prime Minister, who said he had come to personally promise her that he would combat the Chiang Rai drug trade. Today Mati's son, at least, is clean. "Thaksin is my hero," says his 53-year-old mother, wiping away tears with her apron. "He is the only Prime Minister who ever cared about normal people...
...least one mother had recollections of an adviser going even further...
...acknowledged that the reaction to this possible act of domestic terrorism is a bit unusual as far as terrorism cases go. "A lot of people in the Northwest, on the West Coast, and in the U.S. and in the world today are environmentalists, have concerns about the earth and Mother Nature, myself included," Gutt says. "A lot of people up here may be more sympathetic to the objective. It's a social objective many people can share." But, he adds: "I don't think it makes the methods any more acceptable. There are ways to effect real change without resorting...