Word: son-in-law
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Take, for example, Pauline Cotnoir, 82, who last year decided to sell the house in Newark, Del., where she and her husband had raised eight children. Eager to move to Sunrise Senior Living in nearby Wilmington and also to help her daughter and son-in-law, Jacqueline and Peter Hannaford, who had lived with her for eight years, Cotnoir offered the couple the chance to buy the 1920s colonial for 80% of the fair market value. "Essentially my mother gifted us the equivalent of a 20% down payment," says Jacqueline, 37, "which helped us a lot financially." Cotnoir...
...doctor says he tries to keep the family's spirits up and encourage positive thinking. But that's virtually impossible. "People are so fed up," he says, worn out by the struggle just to survive. His son-in-law stares impassively at him as he argues that the new government can do better in restoring security because its leaders are Iraqis and, unlike the Americans, understand Iraqi society. Nafret mutters her skepticism. Her husband breaks in with a fierce declaration: "They must!" For families like the Radhys, it's that simple...
Championing liberty is all well and good--until you need someone to bottle the cider. As he writes to his son-in-law about the death of Jupiter, his slave and personal attendant for three decades, Jefferson seems as sorry for the loss of the labor as the loss of the man. For all his contradictions, it is Jefferson's views on slavery that are the most difficult to reconcile with his role as the author of the words "all men are created equal." At the time of his death, Jefferson owned about 200 slaves. Five from the Hemings family...
...that Americans would acquiesce to the will of the majority. Jefferson probably exaggerated his confidence in that fact, in hopes that Short would show the letter around Europe and bolster the perception of the U.S. as a smoothly running republic. By February 1801, when he wrote to his son-in-law, the race had taken an unexpected twist. He had bested John Adams, but now Jefferson and his running mate, Aaron Burr, were tied with 73 electoral votes apiece for President. In the House of Representatives, which was to decide the winner, there were eight states for Jefferson...
...Shrek 2, the altogether adorable sequel to the animated sensation of three years ago, the nice young couple is obliged to overcome many obstacles before gaining her family's acceptance of an ogre as son-in-law and a genial ending. Mostly the trouble stems from a Fairy Godmother who thinks her handsome, egomaniac son would be a much better mate for Fiona, but who goes to Shrek movies for the plot? God may or may not be in the details, but the best laughs surely...