Word: sisterly
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Born in Washington, D.C., Kedlaya now resides in Silver Spring, Maryland. His family does not have the technical background one might expect: His father is a photographer, his mother a homemaker. Kedlaya has one sister, Kishori, a first-year at Harvard who will probably concentrate in physics and philosophy...
...American than anyone I know," lives in Maryland, while her Nigerian father lives in Uganda. She has three siblings, to whom she is very close. Tobin is her 16-year-old younger brother ("He's a hottie," said one of Thomas's friends). Jessica, her 22-year-old older sister, graduated from Stanford last year and now lives in Maryland. Justin, her 24-year-old brother, is in jail (But not for teaching her how to burp. "Typically delinquency," Thomas says. "Car theft, drug dealing, the usual. No killings...that I know of." And then she laughs...
...that will one day provide her with sweet revenge on her tormentors. It is, at best, material for some future psychiatric monologue wherein she can blame her unhappiness on Brandon. Or on Steve (Eric Mabius), the high school hunk she hopelessly moons after. Or even, conceivably, on her little sister, whose kidnapping turns into the kind of attention-getting device Dawn can only envy...
...most disheartening part of Franklin Graham's rise to power was the brief mention of his sister Anne Graham Lotz, one of Billy Graham's three daughters, "an inspirational speaker and long considered the child who inherited the greatest share of Billy's gift." It is obvious that no one--not herself nor her father nor his organization--even considered Lotz to be the one to whom the "mantle may be passed." Instead it was forced on the son, the rightful male heir, according to some patriarchal notion of manifest destiny. Perhaps today's preachers should be as mindful...
RECOVERING. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, former Massachusetts Senator and 1992 presidential candidate; from a bone-marrow transplant, his second, to treat cancer-therapy complications; in Boston. The donor was his twin sister Thaleia Schlesinger...