Word: sisterly
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...everyone is waiting. Another longtime Golden State political pro, Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi, a two-time former insurance commissioner and Deputy Interior Secretary under President Clinton, told TIME, "I am in. Period." (Garamendi, 64, was once a political rival of Brown's sister Kathleen.) California, Garamendi said, needs a leader who will put progressive back into the state's political lexicon. Despite Schwarzenegger's recent swing to the middle, Garamendi said the governor has lost his ability to lead the state out of its troubles. Schwarzenegger's two terms, Garamendi said, "have been a failure of leadership." (See 25 people...
...ultimately find a character we're presumably supposed to hate, the collection agent doggedly pursuing her, so sympathetic. Angular, angry Derek Smeath (Robert Stanton) has been driven to the brink by Becky's inexcusable number of excuses. When he finally pounces, the satisfaction is akin to seeing your little sister get spanked for reading your diary...
...never cried, but his section of the book’s narration is imbued with an otherworldly clairvoyance.The most interesting perspective is that of Lark and Termite’s aunt, Nonie, who has effectively raised them. Nonie has taken pains to cover over the memory of her sister, a woman whom it seems was always more beloved than she was. Her attitude toward the children is constantly shifting, and she dribbles out her emotion in jaded comments. “Don’t ever let a man inside you,” she tells Lark, starting when Lark...
...hearing room was a reminder of Holder's uncommon roots: there was his wife Sharon Malone, a prominent obstetrician whose late sister Vivian Malone Jones faced down George Wallace to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963; his brother Billy, who became a New York Port Authority cop; his three young children, who may never know the indignity of racial profiling; and his mother Miriam, 85, who brought up two sons to revere the law. "We taught them to help where you can and right the wrongs that you see," she says. As in the old days, that...
...delay may make it more difficult to unravel the case. The police took a week to seize documents from Satyam's auditors, and there are concerns that crucial papers have been destroyed. Two weeks after Raju's confession, the state police arrested his cousin, Gopalakrishna Raju, who heads a sister company, for "concealing and causing disappearance of evidence"- mainly documents related to property acquisitions. Although an independent body under the central Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the Serious Crimes Investigation Office, has been investigating the case, it has a mandate to look mainly at violations of corporate law and not issues...