Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he was eight, Ashong moved to Saudi Arabia and later on, Qatar, while his parents ran pediatric emergency care centers. There, Ashong went to international schools and spent his days among students who spoke four or five languages. His parents made an effort to expose Ashong and his sister to different cultures, and the family traveled all over the globe, from Canada to Thailand...
...closeness of the family--he still calls his parents Mommy and Daddy, and he is devoted to his younger sister, nicknamed "Sweetie"--made arduous self-discipline into a labor of love...
...will be sitting at home in a lovely house I bought for them, chilling, and my family at home will have everything and anything they want. I'll be married with one kid." He pauses and thinks. "Maybe two," he says definitively. "My wife will be really nice, my sister will be out of college and doing really well and I will be really successful in both the music and the film industry. And I'll have the world as my oyster...ceteris parabis, that's the plan...
...Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, her father, worried that she would bring no athletic skills to a boarding school that required every student to play sports, tried teaching her squash. After attempting squash, track and cross-country skiing, the skinny Remus finally was convinced by her older sister that crew was a sport that didn't require coordination but rather hard work, something that Remus was used to as an industrious student...
...lawyers were unable to soften the impact of the testimony. Although many experts predict McVeigh's only chance at avoiding the death penalty is to take the stand, Cole says that's not likely. Instead, his defense will try to rely on testimony from McVeigh's father and sister, and pin their hopes on an appeal on the jury's guilty verdict...