Word: mothered
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...Grew up in Freehold, New Jersey; much of his future work would be indelibly associated with the state. His father was a bus driver and his mother a secretary. He feel in love with the guitar at age 13, and bought his first guitar...
...birth of her now almost 7-year-old son Evan, who developed autism early in life, changed all of that. McCarthy has become a best-selling author, first of lighter stuff like Baby Laughs and Life Laughs; then of more serious fare, like Louder than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism. (Read "Fragile X: Unraveling Autism's Secrets...
Varun Gandhi is the great-grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first Prime Minister. His grandmother was Nehru's only child, Indira Gandhi, whose two sons, in turn, left legacies at odds with each other. The older son Rajiv, succeeded his mother as prime minister shortly after she was assassinated in 1984. Rajiv was later murdered in a 1994 terrorist bombing and his Italian-born widow, Sonia, now leads the ruling Congress Party. Rajiv's younger brother, Sanjay, however, had been their mother Indira's favorite and had been viewed as her heir apparent until his sudden death...
...Gandhi, Sonia's daughter, said that her cousin Varun's comments were against the traditions her family had "lived and died for." There might have been a bigger political spectacle if Priyanka's brother Rahul had been entered as a possible Congress candidate in the coming elections, but their mother nixed that suggestion. (See pictures of Sonia Gandhi's India...
...chances. In any case, his supporters have not been quiet. On Saturday, after he turned himself in, they fought a pitched battle with the police and laid siege to the jail. Police responded by firing tear gas shells and charging the demonstrators with canes, injuring 25 people. His mother Maneka further stoked the anger when she claimed a Muslim officer had led the charge. In India's often overheated politics, the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty knows about playing with fire...