Word: nephew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evening. Jonathan H. Alter ’79, who is also an NBC political correspondent, met with about 25 Harvard students to address the question, “The Bush Failure: Can the Next President Fix It?” The event was organized by Alter’s nephew Spencer B. Lazar ’07 as part of the “Conversations with Kirkland” discussion series and took place in the Kirkland Junior Common Room last night. Lazar said he wanted to engage students in a productive political conversation with a respected authority...
...Byun rises from his seat when the video feed begins and when his half sister and nephew suddenly appear on the screen. He introduces his side of the family, who take deep bows, then reaches to his left for the photo of his recently departed 88-year-old father. "Our father died only ten days ago," he says, holding up the frame in front a camera perched on top of the screen. "When he learned he was finally going to meet you, his heart and mind couldn't handle the excitement." Fighting back tears, his half sister dabs her eyes...
...younger brother, who has just rested a large black wooden framed photo of their late father on an empty chair. All three family members gaze at a 60-inch flat screen four feet in front of them. In a few minutes, the brothers will meet their half-sister and nephew for the first time ever - or more accurately, lay eyes on and speak to their kin in North Korea for the first time, via a fiber optic video cable, installed as part of a video family reunion program between the two Koreas this week...
...also a decidedly un-Gallic lawyer from the central Indian city of Bhopal. Nevertheless, according to the book Le Rajah de Bourbon, published last week by European blueblood Prince Michael of Greece (a Bourbon scion himself), Balthazar is a direct descendant of Jean de Bourbon, a swashbuckling nephew of Henri IV who joined the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1560. While Jean's progeny faded into obscurity in the East, Henri IV's ruled France for centuries until the guillotine ended the Bourbon line at Louis XVI in 1793. Now, Prince Michael claims Balthazar is Louis...
...confusing, but as the story continues, the reader learns to recognize each character’s voice and perspective and becomes absorbed in his or her world. The title of the collection comes from the first short story, which centers on Lucien, a widowed New Yorker, and Nathaniel, the nephew of his late wife, Charlie. Though the two live in the same city, they rarely see one another and their lives unfold separately. Eisenberg structures her story by letting each character reveal his inner monologue while linking them through memories of Charlie, which creates a poignant portrait of each character...