Word: parental
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...Miranda's teammates, 72-kg (158.5-lb.) contender Tocarra Montgomery, 21, lost a parent in a different way. Her father Paul Montgomery is serving 30 years to life in prison for killing two men in Cleveland, Ohio, when Tocarra was 15. She released her anger in wrestling; just months after joining the team at Cleveland's East Tech High, she won the silver medal at girls nationals. Two years later, she was named International Women's Wrestler of the Year. "She doesn't drink. She doesn't get high. She doesn't party," says her Cumberland College coach, Kip Tranik...
...have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big." TED TURNER, former vice chairman of TIME's parent company, Time Warner, writing in the Washington Monthly...
...DIVORCED. PATRICK HOLLAND, 14, from his father, Daniel Holland, becoming the first child to divorce a parent on his own (without the assistance of a ward or guardian); in Canton in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Daniel Holland shot his wife Elizabeth in their Quincy, Massachusetts, home in 1998 and is serving a life sentence. Patrick discovered his mother's body. "No one should ever have to go through what I went through," he said last week...
Dean of Freshmen Elisabeth Studley Nathans wrote in an e-mail that the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) first became aware of the problem when a concerned parent, “who happens to have two students in the entering class phoned me very early Monday morning, concerned that one student had ‘received’ a housing assignment but the other...
...when it came to his own life, the Yale-educated candidate was up-front about his privileged background—mentioning that he grew up in a two-parent home, never having faced the economic challenges he vowed to address...