Word: sisterly
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...letter of acceptance along with an offer of a full scholarship.“I was jumping around the room—I tripped and almost broke my roommate’s laptop,” Ganong said. “Max was screaming with joy, he called his sister and was almost crying; it was an incredible moment.”Much has changed since Yelbi first came to the United States in the hopes of playing basketball professionally.“I was kind of arrogant—I was a recruit for the [basketball] team...
...getting better parts. Anita Page, 98, starred in The Broadway Melody, the first talking picture to win an the best-picture Oscar. She was also the last surviving star to have attended the first Oscar ceremony in 1929. Evelyn Keyes, 91, played Scarlett O'Hara's sister Suellen in Gone With the Wind and had the female lead in the 1941 hit Here Comes Mr. Jordan, remade by Warren Beatty as Heaven Can Wait. Better known for her string of rocky marriages: to directors Charles Vidor and John Huston and bandleader Artie Shaw. It was her fourth trip...
...sister, I accompany two of my five younger siblings to the roof of our 14-story building. We head up there whenever we can, even if people say it makes us easy targets. We climb 13 flights of stairs just to stand and look out on Gaza and breathe in 15 minutes of air before we duck inside again. "Burning City," the children call it. Columns of smoke rise from various locations in the distance, changing the color of the sky and the sun. The entire landscape is transformed. We can make out the locations of several of the many...
...unable to distinguish joy from fear. My 11-year-old sister laughs as she imagines how people all over the world watch the horrific events taking place in the Gaza Strip. "It's like we are in a scary movie. I'm sure people eat popcorn as they watch," she says. My 12- and 14-year-old brothers act out scenes from our reality while quoting Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, their favorite video game, and we laugh hysterically at their performance. Moments later we tense up at the sound of a violent, earthquake-like explosion close...
...Previously we thought Andromeda was dominant, and that we were the little sister of Andromeda,” Reid said. “But now it’s more like we are fraternal twins...