Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing personal. I am, after all, the daughter of a Social Studies concentrator and a Gov jock. My sister concentrates in Women's Studies, surely one of the most theory-ridden fields at Harvard. But I tend to break out in hives at the merest whiff of theory. The word "epistemological" is enough to make me leave the room...
Kathleen Brown, the daughter of one Governor and the sister of another, won a solid victory in California's Democratic gubernatorial primary. Sitting GOP Governor Pete Wilson won his own party's nomination handily, but he faces a tough run for another seat. If the election were held today, say the pollsters, Brown would unseat the implacable Wilson. Eight other states held primaries yesterday. The most notable: Fred Grandy, who overcame his reputation as the clownish "Gopher" on "The Love Boat" to win a seat in Congress, lost his bid for the governorship of Iowa...
...raped by David Ferrie, a fey father figure and apparent conspirator. Ferrie, whom Malkovich has said he would have liked to play if he were not directing, is a tour de force for Laurie Metcalf in a far cry from her Emmy-winning role as the title character's sister on TV's Roseanne...
...knowledge of her husband's indiscretions. Before the brutal end of the New Frontier came, there was the feeling that the two had grown closer together because of the inexorable public pressure that surrounded the White House. But in the summer of 1963 she went off with her sister Lee Radziwill for a European cruise, stayed twice as long as scheduled as stories of nocturnal sightings filtered back. Jack was sore. That was one of the reasons she went to Dallas in November on that . doomed political junket, a gesture of contrition for the summer sins...
...local Tutsi were buried alive. The mayor of the southern town of Butare, who is married to a Tutsi, was offered a Sophie's choice by Hutu peasants: he could save his wife and children if he gave up his wife's family -- both her parents and her sister -- to be killed. He made the deal...