Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guests, largely government officials, foreign diplomats and corporate executives, were preparing to make a run at the sushi buffet and raise their pisco sours to toast Aoki's hospitality. Even Peru's President Alberto Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, was expected. His mother Rosa, brother Pedro and sister Juana were already there...
Three hours after the seizure, communications were established and the insurgents gradually began releasing some 300 women and elderly people (including Fujimori's mother and sister). In phone calls to local television and radio stations, the rebels then issued a list of demands. Among them: safe passage to a haven in the Amazon jungle and release of about 450 comrades being held in various jails, where conditions are so harsh that prisoners are said to be trapping rats to feed themselves...
...life continues to seem a good deal more earthbound than her apparently unsinkable ex-client's. For several months Rowlands has been living in Fairborn, Ohio, helping her older sister care for their mother, who is dying of liver cancer. Rowlands is also working on a book proposal about women who are abused by men in power. "You know there is something strange about this person," she says of Morris, "but he has something you really need." She's not the only one he affects that way: it was reported last week that Rudolph Giuliani briefly flirted with Morris about...
...Browns, the day was full of foreboding. Denise Brown could not sit still. The sister of Nicole Brown Simpson was expecting the worst and knew how the news would arrive: by fax from the Orange County, California, judge who was deciding where O.J. Simpson's two children would live. Desperate for distraction, Denise and her mother Juditha set off on a Christmas shopping trip, looking for snowboarding equipment...
...vexed by Flynt's verbal and pictorial provocations, they just had to sue him. One offended reader took a few rifle shots at the Great Satan of Columbus, Ohio, forever paralyzing some of Flynt's favorite body parts. The bumptious pornographer made friends with Jimmy Carter's evangelist sister, went nuts on painkillers and won a crucial First Amendment ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. All in all, a wonderful life...