Word: mother
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...Lady Sarah admits that following Diana's death, she and her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, shredded "sensitive" documents that might be "distressing" to Princes Harry and William, including thank-you notes and pamphlets from "soothsayers." But she maintains that no "historical" documents, such as correspondence with Prince Philip, were ever shredded: "My conscience is clear on what I destroyed." Still, prying open the wooden chest - and potentially unleashing those letters onto the world - may have been akin to opening Pandora's box. For a mythic figure like Diana, it's a fitting comparison...
...board. Around him, hundreds of people push towards an opening in the barrier surrounding the station. A police officer standing behind a fence shouts into a megaphone, calling for order. "I haven't made any money here," Gao says. "But I want to go home to see my mother...
...clamp it down a little bit. That was powerful stuff. When you see Ted, Caroline, Patrick together, and I think about the role they played in shaping my values and ideals and what I believe about America, the connection to my father traveling to Hawaii and meeting my mother [He described in his speech how his father had come to America in part because of a program for Kenyan students that had been championed by the Kennedys.] As I said, it brings things full circle...
...Super Tuesday mother lode of primaries and caucuses fast approaches, both the Democratic and Republican races for the presidential nomination are equally tight, with no clear front-runner emerging for either party. Most hypothetical matches for the general election are looking similarly close. But so far in at least one key respect, the Democrats are clearly beating their G.O.P. counterparts: voter turnout...
...become the real-life example of Obama's soaring rhetoric. "I was raised in a working class family on the South Side of Chicago, that's how I identify myself, a working class girl," Michelle told a group of students at the University of South Carolina Wednesday. "My mother came home and took care of us through high school, my father was a city shift worker who took care of us all his life. The only amazing thing about my life is that a man like my father could raise a family of four on a single city worker...