Word: sisterly
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...Pedro, the proletarian man of honor, usually bears injustice bravely. Sometimes he volunteers for public censure, taking the rap for a crime of passion his sister committed in Las Islas Marias. Sometimes he's railroaded into jail by a scheming rival, as in Nosotros los pobres...! Only rarely, as in The Woman I Lost, does he take up arms against the corrupting power. On the run for an accidental killing the police think is murder, he becomes a Robin Hood of the countryside, reappropriating the money the landowners have stolen from the people...
...Saturday Night.” Monica E. Lemmond, now a student at the Medical School, founded the original magazine while a Duke undergraduate in 2002.Lemmond and her friends wanted to foster a forum for survivors. The magazine’s staff included Homaifar’s older sister, then a student at Duke.“There were always copies of the magazines lying around the house,” Homaifer said. “So I grew up very familiar with it. I’ve been wanting to start ‘Saturday Night’ here since...
What I find most disturbing about the Imus affair is the reaction of black women. Our plentiful public response has been almost entirely angry. My inbox seethes with articles with titles like "No Apologies: Notes from a Nappy Headed Sister." But I find no comfort in this reaction, because I'm not angry. I'm deeply, deeply hurt...
...suffering. While I can point to a specific and admittedly uncommon cause for my depression, others are not afforded such a socially acceptable explanation. In March of my senior year of high school, my father died unexpectedly from a massive stroke after heart surgery. My twin sister and I, having lost our mother to cancer when we were 12, worked with our siblings to sell our home as we departed for college. Rather than take a year off before school, I just wanted to move on, so I hid my issues behind the exciting change that is the first year...
...career of men’s lacrosse co-captain John Henry Flood winds to a close, the beginning of a burgeoning career is marked in the arrival of his younger sister, freshman attacker Sara Flood...