Word: sisterly
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...answer lies in Maurer's background. An agriculturist by training, he came to Bhutan more than 30 years ago to help the remote kingdom develop a dairy industry, before staying on to open his guesthouse in a traditional stone building that was once the home of the King's sister. Maurer's professional expertise, as well as the pristine environment, ensure that the food at the guesthouse will be among the freshest you've tasted. Vegetables are from the garden. The jams, honey and bread (apparently a favorite of the Queen Mother's) are homemade. The butter and cheese...
...which has enforced a state ban on the wearing of head scarves in educational institutions.Ka’s friend suggests an additional incentive for the trip: the beautiful and mysterious Ipek, whom Ka has always had a thing for, has separated from her husband and is helping her sister and aging father to manage the Snow Palace Hotel in Kars.As Ka travels through the dilapidated neighborhoods of Kars interviewing the families of girls who had committed suicide, he hears of lives of quiet desperation: 16-year-olds engaged to elderly men, girls subjected to verbal and physical abuse...
...relationships and people that Eisenberg explores. “Some Other, Better Otto” is particularly engrossing because of the types of connections it centers on—that between Otto and his endlessly patient and supportive lover, William, and also that of Otto to his schizophrenic sister, Sharon. The difference between the two relationships and the extent of love that the characters demonstrate despite extremely straining circumstances reveal just how far the capacity of love can extend. While “Twilight of the Superheroes” and “Some Other, Better Otto” explore...
...classic family tales. Carla Jentoft calls her daughter and oldest son, Leif P. Jentoft, “best friends.” The siblings played and recorded together as a classical guitar duo until he left for Olin College, an engineering college in Massachusetts, two years ago. Now his sister has joined him in the Northeast, and the duo has reunited and recently made their Massachusetts debut at a local restaurant. Mother and daughter are also extremely close. In fact, they speak on the phone two or three times each day and even dot their speech with the same voice...
...Jessica Simpson, left, shows off the Rolex given to her by sister Ashlee...