Word: sisterly
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...dancer. She is drawn to a soulful bartender, whose insane father, heard but never seen, she tends in the evenings. The bartender, in turn, is the confidant of an unemployed former soldier whose fiancée is one of the realtor's clients. The realtor's beautiful, inexplicably lonely sister, incidentally, almost hooks up with the sometime soldier. But that doesn't work out, either...
...choice abortion stand, "You will not see me wavering on that or be a multiple choice." He cites his mother, who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate from Michigan in 1970 as an abortion-rights advocate, and the searing tragedy of his brother-in-law's teenage sister - "a dear, close family relative who was very close to me" - who died of a botched illegal abortion in the 1960s...
...source of the Blue Nile, told me that several new hotels are being built in anticipation of a (local) year 2000 tourist influx. "I have heard that 50,000 people will come here for the millennium," he confided. But given that the best hotel currently in Bahir Dar (sister city: Cleveland, Ohio) is a state-run guesthouse whose moldy rooms and surly plumbing aspire to one-star status, it's doubtful that the new concrete-block hotels will attract even a fraction of the hoped-for crowds...
...thinking about going to college?" she asks nearly every student. "How much homework do you have? Is there anyone at home who helps you?" (The answer to that last one is generally, no.) Gates tells kids that her own mother never went to college and regretted it. "My sister and I were the first women in our family to go to college," she says. "It was difficult for my parents to pay for it." She says she chose Duke University because it had a strong program in computers. "My husband," she reveals, "is finally getting his degree from Harvard after...
This dragged-out mess, though, is a distraction. The bigger issue is that the Washington-based bank and its sister organization, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), are struggling to justify their continued existence...