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...Kilburn, a nephew notified by the State Department, blamed the U.S. bombardment of Libya for his uncle's death. "We're on our way to war, as far as I can see," he said in Aptos, Calif. "The United States government's answer to problems is to drop bombs...
...Omar, having failed two sets of exams, does household chores all day for his widowed father, and Johnny, living in an abandoned building, has to keep one step ahead of some burly evictors. But Omar's Uncle Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey) comes to the rescue and agrees to employ his nephew, eventually allowing him to manage the eponymous laundrette, at that point nothing more than an unprofitable hangout for skinheads and other local riffraff...
...P.L.O. wanted to hit back at Hussein, Mayor al Masri would have been a logical target. Not only had his appointment received Jordan's tacit approval, but his family is part of the Jordanian Establishment. His elder brother Hikmat is deputy speaker of the Jordanian upper house, and his nephew Taher is Hussein's Foreign Minister...
...passion. Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis) is a bleach-blond tough with a National Front past. His boyhood pal Omar (Gordon Warnecke) is the son of an impoverished Pakistani writer (Roshan Seth) and the nephew of a gaudy entrepreneur (Saeed Jaffrey). Uncle is a sharp businessman but unlucky with women: his daughter is a rebellious flirt, his aging mistress carries herself like the ghost of swinging London, and his wife hexes the mistress with an evil spell concocted of mice and berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple...
...mission specialist on last week's flight, Resnik was supposed to help take photographs of Halley's comet, among other tasks. She was also carrying a signet ring for a nephew and a heart-shaped locket for a niece. "I think something is only dangerous if you are not prepared for it," she once said of space travel, "or if you don't have control over it or if you can't think through how to get yourself out of a problem." For Resnik, danger was simply another unknown to be mastered...