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...Ladens. But that relationship was tested when Osama began advocating rebellion after King Fahd allowed American troops into Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. The government exiled Osama, and his family quickly renounced him. Not long after the Sept. 11 attack, Osama's uncle and family patriarch Abdullah, speaking from his home in Jidda, declared the family's "strong denunciation and condemnation of this tragic incident...
...roadside and exacting a terrible revenge on non-buyers. Then there's the Barbie Museum. That would be a roadside attraction devoted not to the immortal doll but to the vicious Nazi Klaus Barbie. Not to worry, though, the befuddled Jewish family (with Jon Lovitz as its addled patriarch and Kathy Najimy his bemused wife) makes its escape in style--in Hitler's onetime touring car. Best of all, there's Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Pollini, a good-natured Italian immigrant struggling hilariously with his nonnative language and with the narcolepsy that overtakes him at crucial moments. He's what...
...float a trial balloon, then pop it. Almost as many have entered races to stay. Four Kennedys by birth or marriage are running--two for Governor, two for Congress. Should they all prevail, there will be five family members in federal or statewide office--the most ever--including patriarch Ted Kennedy, who won an easy re-election last year and is at the height of his power in the Senate. Not bad for a dynasty that enjoyed its heyday before most living Americans were born...
...more you realize it just doesn't exist." But even Leamer acknowledges that it once did. If you want to know why the Kennedys occupy large stretches of American culture, you have to trace the workings of the machine. They lead back to the patriarch...
Gianni Agnelli, patriarch of the family that controls automaker Fiat, is the closest thing Italy has to a king. The press hangs on his every pronouncement, whether it's about politics, soccer or business. When a paparazzo is lucky enough to catch him jumping off a yacht in his birthday suit, as one once did, well, that's news too. When Agnelli needs to tell the Prime Minister something, the P.M., whoever he may be, listens intently. But if Agnelli is the king, then the crown prince is Marco Tronchetti Provera, 53, chairman of Pirelli, the $4.5 billion tire...