Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Five years ago, Hillel had a ruling body which was almost entirely composed of Orthodox people," says Julia W. Andelman '97-'98, a member of Hillel's Conservative minyan, whose older sister was also a member. "Now the conception of the leadership has changed, as have the people...
...deMeurerses had hired an attorney, Mark Hiepler, then preparing for trial against Health Net on behalf of his client Nelene Fox--his sister. For the deMeurerses, he mailed a detailed appeal to Health Net urging the company to reconsider its denial and presenting evidence that the treatment was widely accepted by cancer experts...
...Ossorio, who again denied coverage. The deMeurerses, committed now to getting the transplant by any means necessary, launched a two-pronged attack: they authorized Hiepler to pursue an injunction to compel Health Net to pay for the treatment: and they began fund raising in earnest. Christy's sister organized a formal dinner in Boulder, Colorado; friends and colleagues arranged a school talent show. The deMeurerses' daughter Michelle, then eight years old, took a piece of loose-leaf paper and with shaky precision wrote her own advertisement for a yard sale. The sign said, MONEY GOES TO A MOTHER WITH BREAST...
...Austin, has just 13,300 people. But no place is too small for the drug trade. Five years ago, crack moved in among the cotton gins and railroad tracks, bringing with it assault, rape, car theft and murder. Crime got so bad that Mae Willie Turner, 79, and her sister, Gladys Hubbard, 73, could no longer sit at night on their front porch. "The place was infested," says Turner...
...Penn and Sarandon have held in reserve during their hypnotic struggle for his soul--that its final moments leave us awash in emotion. How hard it is to achieve even modest states of grace in this world. How patiently we must work to achieve them. How easy, absent a Sister Helen, it is to miss them entirely...