Word: sisterly
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...Although Buffett revered his father, a stockbroker who became a four-term Congressman, he had a complex relationship with his mother. A model housewife to the outside world, his mother would "verbally lash" the young Buffett and his older sister for hours, until the children wept. Buffett says that when his mother died he cried not because he was sad but "because of the waste. She had her good parts, but the bad parts kept me from having a relationship with...
Enter the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator. The directions are as simple as moose pie. Type your first name, click enter, and some sort of formula spits out your very own Palin-esque name. I'm Wood Corps Palin. My sister Chelsea gets rechristened Tape Boise Palin. My brother Brandon? Tarp Lazer Palin. Wood, Tape, and Tarp: baby names you could use to build a temporary outdoor shelter. Very Alaska. The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator...
...headlines, make LDP members cringe and, in the past, have strained ties with China. But Aso's awareness of his shortcomings, his persistence - this is his third run for prime minister - and his pedigree stand out. Both his grandfather and father-in-law were prime ministers and Aso's sister married into the imperial family. Pegged to win since Fukuda announced his plans to resign three weeks ago, he has the support of the LDP's partner coalition, the New Komeito Party, as well as younger voters. After campaigning for nearly two weeks, he easily beat the other four...
...action finally came in the form of Senator Hollis French, the Anchorage Democrat who is leading the investigation into whether Governor Sarah Palin abused the power of her office to get her little sister's ex-husband, state trooper Mike Wooten, fired by pressuring - and then dismissing - Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan. French has been the focal point of the McCain campaign's objections to the Troopergate investigation. They say French, as a Democrat, has a partisan ax to grind. And while the mostly Republican committee had voted unanimously to start the investigation before Palin was on the McCain...
...York City as the only smart places in the U.S. to take tea, those of us west of the Mississippi were dismayed that you did not mention the spectacular Dushanbe teahouse in Boulder, Colorado. The only Central Asian teahouse in the Western Hemisphere and a gift from our impoverished sister city, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, it is exquisitely decorated with hand-carved and hand-painted ceilings, tables, stools and interior wood columns. It is an extraordinary work of art that never fails to enhance the experience of sipping the world's finest teas. George Peknik, Boulder, Colorado...