Word: nephew
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...hard pressed to find a Sunni ? or for that matter anyone else ? who thinks Saddam's trial was fair or impartial. The Coalition Provisional Authority, the institution dedicated to dismantling Saddam's regime, established Saddam's tribunal. Its first head was the nephew of Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who dedicated his life to destroying Saddam. The tribunal's presiding judge is a Kurd from Halabjah, the Kurdish city Saddam gassed in 1988. How could the man vote other than to execute Saddam and still expect to go home to Kurdistan...
...grown fed up and "angry" that Bandar was still trying to act as Saudi Arabia's point man in dealing directly with President Bush and Vice President Cheney. More general reports of bad blood between the two Saudi princes have also fed rumors that Bandar, also the King's nephew, is positioning himself to replace Turki's brother Faisal as foreign minister. Turki has also been rumored as likely to succeed his brother, but some Saudi watchers say that, at least for now, the King and other decision makers are undecided...
However, it is the morose and chubby Bootie, Murray’s nephew, who really manages to stir things up. A college dropout from rural upstate New York, Bootie comes to the city clinging to a fierce, somewhat naïve Emersonian ideal of autodidactic self-reliance...
...defeat may also have been the result of Republican complacency. While the party brought in George P. Bush, the President's nephew, whose mother is Mexican, to campaign for Bonilla, few other of the state's big Republican names helped out - largely because Bonilla was considered a sure winner. "Maybe it was hubris," said Masset. "We were caught at the starting gate, we fell asleep at the wheel...
...moved beyond the standard gangsta-rap subject matter to talk about more personal and pertinent issues: the Hurricane Katrina crisis, his relationship with Beyoncé, his retirement, his mother and father, his falling-out with former friend and business partner Damon Dash, and even his recently deceased nephew...