Word: mothers
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...wooden beams for their backyard iron smelters, which Mao thought would transform China into an industrial power. Most of the iron was worthless, and the neglect of agriculture led to the worst famine of the century, in which more than 20 million people starved to death. Peiyuan's "first mother"--his father's first wife--died of hunger in 1962, but the twins' mother--the third wife--survived and held together what was left of the family. They were destitute...
Rather than a card for Mother's Day, Debbie Mathers-Briggs is angling for cold, hard cash. The mother of rapper EMINEM (ne Marshall Bruce Mathers III) has filed a $10 million suit against her son for what she claims are his unflattering, and all-too-public, assessments of her maternal skills. On his best-selling single My Name Is, Eminem raps "Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to/ I just found out my mom does more dope than I do." Lest one think he was merely trying to rhyme, he also described his mother in several...
...GIVING MOTHER...
When Pauline Einstein learned that her beloved son Albert was consorting with a fellow physics student--one who was older, of another faith and from the backwaters of the Balkans--she was devastated. "If she gets a child, you'll be in a pretty mess," his mother warned him. But the 22-year-old Albert, as roguishly independent in his personal life as he would be in his science, brushed off Mutti's agitated words and continued the romance. On Jan. 27, 1902, nine months after an idyllic interlude at Lake Como, Albert's classmate--and future wife--Mileva Maric...
...Binjamin Wilkomirski, a harrowing, much celebrated Holocaust memoir, which turns out to have been fabricated? The author's real name is Bruno Doesseker. He is not a child survivor of Majdanek, the son of Latvian Jews murdered in the Holocaust. He is Swiss, the son of a Protestant single mother. He never saw the Holocaust. (He claims his Holocaust memory was recalled while he was in therapy...