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...western Canada. They have intermarried and interbred to the point that, in the words of author Jon Krakauer, their "relationships are almost impossible to make sense of without a flowchart." One figure in Krakauer's best-selling history of the sects, Under the Banner of Heaven, was both "sister wife" to her stepmother and stepgrandmother to herself. They are insular and suspicious. Williams did manage to get that much across in his meeting with the media. "What honorable father and parent would not give their all to preserve their children from a traumatic, hostile to them, even abhorrent society...
...service. So that their male scions may escape this obligation, some Singaporean families flee the country - like the family of Eddie in "Those Who Serve, Those Who Do Not." In this story, as in life, an absconder like Eddie can't return to Singapore without facing prosecution. But his sister Joanne returns from her comfortable, pseudo exile in Sydney to visit Uncle Sam and cousin Peter. They did not have the means of escape and instead relied on a powerfully Singaporean stoicism to get them through military duty, embodying qualities Joanne's family too blithely left behind. "She looked...
...Palladino, best known as the creator of “Gilmore Girls.” It starred two terrific actresses, indie darling Parker Posey (as neurotic children’s-book editor Sarah) and “Six Feet Under” daughter Lauren Ambrose (as her free-spirited sister Coco). It had an interesting premise: Sarah, who wants a child and can’t get pregnant, enlists Coco to be a surrogate mother; hilarity, of course, ensues. It even had such talents as Dianne Wiest and Scott Cohen (“Gilmore?...
...Stefan has always been a very quiet, private person, and quite frankly I was shocked. But in a good way,” says Zebrowski-Rubin’s sister, Zarya A. Rubin...
...Internmemo.com, the saving grace of many New York undergraduate interns, was launched by William I. Bressman ’04 and Theodore B. Bressman ’06, with help from their sister, Ethel D. Bressman ’10, on Memorial Day weekend 2007 as means of providing opportunities for future interns and tips for current ones. The Web site and daily e-newsletters contain advice on topics ranging from office behavior to creating good working relationships to listings of social events that could double as networking opportunities...