Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five years later, their sister, Nancy Sophia, learned to play. Their mother, nancy Castillo de Sanchez, also learned to play as golf slowly became a central part of Sanchez's youth...
...Sister Carol hopes that summit participants discover there's a limit to what volunteerism can accomplish. The gathering is little more than a feel-good festival, she says, if it doesn't lead to a strategy for better schools and jobs. Steady work is scarce in the industrial ruins, enrollment at six area schools shows a 95% poverty rate, and two-thirds of the students don't graduate. Villanova's Dore grew up in suburban Philadelphia watching her peers waste opportunities. Here, she says, in a neighborhood 78% Latino and 11% black, kids are hungry for any advantage...
...Conservative are expanding their smaller networks. Sprinkled around the country are high schools sponsored by members of all three branches. It is intriguing to imagine what would happen if more sprang up: instead of saddening her parents by arriving at Seder with a nice Catholic boy (like her older sister's husband), a Reform Jewish girl could thrill them with the fine Conservative lad she met in, say, biology lab. Three guesses as to the faith of their kids...
Talking to Blige, one gets the sense, to paraphrase Langston Hughes, that she's "known rivers"; there are some deep currents of pain running through her, but where they're flowing from is hard to say. Her older sister LaTonya, Mary's backup singer and closest confidante, says that in private the singer "laughs all the time" and spends her nights watching Bette Davis videos. But riding in her limo recently, Blige is, at first, a little wary of questioning. She comes alive, though, when we make a stop at the showroom of French designer Thierry Mugler. She loves shopping...
...bring him into a hired killers' union that he is intent on forming or, failing that, to off the competition. Curiously enough, Grocer and his henchmen blend quite easily into the suburban scene. Grosse Pointe may have grander homes and less snow than, say, Fargo, but spiritually they are sister cities--places where everyone tries to maintain an air of chipper blandness in the face of postmodernism's disorder...