Word: sisterly
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Even with the U.S. pumping $ 3 billion a week into Iraq with scant oversight, it's still jarring to think that U.S. soldiers may be stealing from the pot. But in recent days, an Army major--and his wife and sister--was indicted on charges of pocketing $9.6 million in bribes in exchange for contracts in Iraq. An Army captain with the 10th Mountain Division was charged after allegedly soliciting a $50,000 bribe. There are now 73 investigations into $5 billion in contracts that may have been tainted by--in addition to bribes and kickbacks--rigged bids, product substitution...
...ophthalmologist and his sister sprinkled flour in a Connecticut Ikea parking lot. An ensuing bioterrorism scare forced hundreds to evacuate. The two now face felony charges...
...dressed conservatively for an appointment at a university in central Tehran. But at the gate a guard told me my manteau, a sort of Islamic overcoat, had "too few buttons," and he refused me admittance. "You look appalling," he said. A fellow guard rebuked him for addressing a "sister" so disrespectfully. The professor I was meeting, a reformer and onetime official, phoned to intervene, but the guards refused to budge. "Sorry, Doctor," the offensive one said, pronouncing the title with a sneer. I wanted to burst into tears but told myself it was an educational experience. It gave...
...about something of this magnitude, and you're in a country where they don't know what baseball is. So I had to keep it to the phones and Internet. It was a good vacation - I was on a movie set most of the time [visiting my friend's sister, the actress Abigail Breslin], on the beach. When you leave a vacation, you're usually upset. I was excited to leave, because I was going back to a whole different world...
...added yet another chapter. On July 29 archaeologists announced that they had discovered near Yekaterinburg in the Urals the remains of a young boy and adolescent woman thought to be the 13-year-old Crown Prince Alexei, son of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas Romanov, and Alexei's sister, believed to be 19-year-old Maria. The remains -bone fragments, teeth, bullets and fragments of ceramic bottles supposedly used by the executioners to carry sulfuric acid to mutilate the bodies beyond recognition - have pushed Russian state prosecutors to re-launch a probe to investigate the Imperial family's murder...