Word: sisterly
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...political science at Virginia's Hollins College, where she proudly serves as a trustee. After working as a hospital administrator in Boston, she enrolled at Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration and in 1979 joined TIME's circulation staff. Six years later, after stints with two of our sister magazines, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, she returned to TIME as circulation director, where she helped ensure that TIME maintained the number of subscribers that it guaranteed to advertisers. On the strength of her strong performance in that job, Valk was named publisher of LIFE in 1986 and then of PEOPLE...
Lacayo toils 14 hours a day in an office that would be used by Vice President Virgilio Godoy Reyes if he and Chamorro were on better terms. Until this month, Lacayo's sister Silvia was the country's treasurer, and her husband Alfredo Cesar Aguirre is president of the National Assembly. Lacayo's cousin heads the Central Bank, and all three national newspapers are directed by Chamorros, including the pro-government La Prensa, where Lacayo's wife Cristiana is president. During a two-hour interview, Lacayo bristled at the suggestion that he and his family wield inordinate power...
...mother, who suffered from tuberculosis and lived in a sanatorium. One day young Paul, age 4, was driven to see her. A ghostly figure, Katina Tsongas, gazed down from an upstairs window and waved to her son. He never saw her again. She died when Paul and his twin sister, Thaleia, were seven. A grandmother, whom the children soon called Ma, took her place...
...unsuitable donor. Within 12 weeks, Lea Ann was again pregnant, this time with Emily, whose tissue proved compatible. So doctors collected and stored the blood from Emily's umbilical cord -- blood rich in stem cells. Twenty months after Emily's birth, the cord blood was transplanted into her sister, then...
...years ago, Rich felt ready to make his first movie. After exhausting $16,000 in cash advances from his mother's and sister's credit cards to buy film stock and pay a cameraman, he went on a local black radio station and appealed to its listeners for the money to finish the project; about 20 chipped in $77,000. A chance meeting with director Jonathan Demme led to a distribution deal and a screening at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Three studios are now pursuing Rich. "It's kind of weird when...