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...been a rough political season for the Kennedy mystique. In last week's primary, J.F.K. nephew Mark Shriver, left, narrowly lost his bid to be the Democratic nominee for a congressional seat from Maryland, despite getting his publicity-shy cousin Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg to campaign for him. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, center, eldest child of Robert F. Kennedy, is facing an unexpectedly tough battle for Governor of Maryland, as her double-digit lead has dwindled. And Kennedy ties didn't do much for Andrew Cuomo, married to another of R.F.K.'s daughters; he backed out of the New York Governor...
...last time Bashir Ahmed saw his nephew was one morning three years ago in their modest home in Gujrat, an industrial town in Pakistan's Punjab province. Mohzam Siddique was wearing the brown shalwar kameez his mother had ironed the night before and carried a spare in a plastic shopping bag. "All he said was that he was going to a public rally," recalls Ahmed, who had taken care of Siddique's family ever since the lad's father, a Pakistani artilleryman, was killed by Indian soldiers in a firefight in Kashmir in 1980, when Siddique was just...
...cordon tightens around Tony, the show's emotional range expands. For all its flashy violence, it has become a work of aching sadness and irony about people who can't say what they feel and so express themselves with bullets and money. In the season premiere, Tony's nephew Christopher (Michael Imperioli) finds an ex-cop who, Tony tells him, killed Chris' father when he was a baby. Chris realizes that Tony--the closest thing he has to a father--may be lying to him, using him, but he sadistically kills the cop anyway. Then he visits his mother, tries...
...hundred meters down the rutted, dirt road is Mohammed Ibrahim, a mason, working with his brother and nephew to reconstruct a house he built himself in the 1970s. They're hurrying to complete two rooms before winter?each requires 10,000 bricks?so the 16 members of their extended family will have shelter. There is a tentative sense that peace may last, due to a curious partnership of the coalition army and the divine. "Thanks to God, we have no fear," says Obaidullah, a tailor, who is rebuilding with the help of his five brothers and their wives. But when...
...SENTENCED. MICHAEL SKAKEL, 41, to 20 years to life in prison for the 1975 murder of his teenage neighbor Martha Moxley; in Norwalk, Connecticut. Skakel, nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow Ethel, testified for the first time on the day of sentencing, tearfully saying he was innocent. During the trial, a prosecution witness testified that Skakel had told him: "I'm going to get away with murder, because I'm a Kennedy...