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...hear it in his voice when he says it, 'Toot,'" says Alice Dewey, a University of Hawaii professor emeritus of anthropology, who is a family friend and was the graduate studies advisor to Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham. "They are very close. [His grandmother] has always been a small, slight woman, but tough. She held his nose to the grindstone, but also lavished him with love...
...broke her hip. She has since suffered from undisclosed, serious medical problems. Obama made the decision to temporarily postpone his campaign on Thursday night and Friday because he did not want to live through the same experience in 1995 when he arrived too late to say farewell to his mother who died of cancer at the age of 53, says U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie. "Those of us who live here in the Islands are used to how long it takes to get here," Abercrombie says. "If the physicians say it's a serious situation, you don't hesitate to come...
Some acquaintances say that Soetoro-Ng has the independent spirit of her mother, Stanley Ann, who took young Maya along when she went to Indonesia and Africa to pursue her master's and doctoral degrees studying and helping village craftsmen (Barack was left behind to be raised by Madelyn Dunham and her late husband Stanley in the 10th story Beretania duplex in the Makiki area of Honolulu). Nevertheless, cautioned by her brother's campaign advisers, Soetoro-Ng always watches her words, knowing how easily the words of a relative can reflect in unintended ways on the candidate...
...Secret Life of Bees” tells the story of Lily Owens, played by Dakota Fanning, who in the first scene of the movie frightfully awakens from a nightmare of her mother’s death. We are introduced to the ensuing mystery of who her mother really was. Lily lives with her widowed father (Paul Bettany) and black housekeeper, Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson), in a small, dry, dusty town in South Carolina during the height of the Civil Rights movement. The relationship between the three is all too familiar: Lily’s father is abusive and distant while Rosaleen...
...Oesterreich newspaper on Wednesday, also contains more troubling details of Fritzl's crime. The 73-year-old deliberately never looked his daughter in the face while he was raping her, the report says, and purposefully shunned contraceptives "so that she would always stay with me, because as a mother of six, she would no longer hold any attraction for other...