Word: sisterly
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...etched his place in the nation?s heart at the funeral of his own father was to be buried at sea Thursday, along with his wife and sister-in-law. The bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette were found Wednesday on the ocean floor off Martha?s Vineyard, four days after their small plane crashed on a Friday-night flight to the Massachusetts island. Following a request by the Kennedy family, which the Pentagon granted, the Navy destroyer USS Briscoe was dispatched to the area in anticipation of a burial at sea. The bodies...
...Piper Saratoga had been located, with Kennedy's body still aboard, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. "They've got the fuselage and John Kennedy's in it," a high-level government source said. Still unknown: the locations of Kennedy's wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren -- and the cause of the crash. One possible clue: CNN reported late Tuesday that mechanics had discovered -? and corrected -? a propeller problem in Kennedy's plane two years ago. Or was the crash a simple mistake by a pilot fighting poor visibility conditions...
Charlie has issues. His favorite aunt passed away, and his best friend just committed suicide. The girl he loves wants him as a friend; a girl he does not love wants him as a lover. His 18-year-old sister is pregnant. The LSD he took is not sitting well. And he has a math quiz looming. Charlie is the high school freshman protagonist of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, a 29-year-old screenwriter. Published by MTV, it is one of a new generation of novels geared toward teenagers, for whom such subjects are increasingly...
...Richard Larrabee on Sunday, but he didn?t. Instead, as day turned into night, Larrabee told a nation what it had long known in its heart ? that two days after John F. Kennedy Jr.?s plane went missing, the search for the president?s son, his wife and her sister is now a hunt for their remains. Twelve hours, the statistical life of a person afloat in 68-degree water, are long since passed. The National Transportation Safety Board has joined the effort; they are excavators, investigators, not medics. The question of John Jr.?s death has changed from "whether...
...green pilot, his license a year old, and was rated to fly visually, but not by instruments, which would be required in poor visibility. Perhaps John Jr. was thinking of his waiting family, of his cousin?s wedding, or the ride to Martha?s Vineyard he had promised his sister-in-law. The weather wasn?t that bad. He?d be fine. After all, he was a Kennedy...