Word: sisterly
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...Seinfeld, who has an older sister, Carolyn Liebling, describes his parents, Kal and Betty Seinfeld, as loving "but not interested in a good way." Seinfeld's mother had grown up in orphanages and foster care. His father, who owned a sign-making business, came from a broken home. "They were loners," says Seinfeld. "They kind of raised us in a very hands-off way. I said, 'I want to be a comedian.' They said, 'Oh, well, we look forward to hearing about it.'" When his father died in 1985, Seinfeld was already a successful comedian who had appeared...
...Felipe is a master,” Brush said. Felipe Herrera came to America from Mexico and began working at Taqueria Mexico in Waltham. He then worked at Boca Grande, a local chain started by a Japanese brother-and-sister duo. When infighting led one sibling to leave Boca Grande, Herrera left with him to be the first cook at Anna’s Taqueria—a branch of which can be found in Porter Square. Herrera left Anna’s five years ago to start his own taqueria with Brush...
...want to do business in China, call Balbina Wong. The deputy chairman and CEO of luxury-brand management and distribution group ImagineX, as well as its retail-management sister company the Walton Brown Group, Wong, 64, has played a pivotal role in the expansion plans of brands like Ferragamo, Hugo Boss, Marc Jacobs, DKNY, Tumi and Coach into what is predicted to become the world's biggest luxury market...
Unlike her older brother and sister, who became doctors, she was drawn early on to an environment of "quality and beauty," Hermann says. She aimed high for l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), one of Europe's best business schools, but that meant moving to Paris alone at age 16 for a two-year prep course. The girl from the provinces was lonely in the beautiful city and distracted herself on weekends by shopping, she says, "to be out among people...
...noisily sounded again on the cultural front by the novels of Philippa Gregory, the Showtime series The Tudors and big-screen spectacles like The Golden Age, starring Cate Blanchett, and the forthcoming The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman as the doomed Anne Boleyn and Scarlett Johansson as her sister...