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...Rose Kennedy produced a clan in which duty and leadership were expected, Miss Lillian expected only, but urgently, that her children be themselves. It had been her way. The fourth of nine children, Bessie Lillian Gordy was born in the southwest Georgia town of Richland, where her postmaster father taught her racial tolerance early on. When the family moved to Plains, Lillian became a nurse, and shocked some neighbors by treating poor blacks as well as whites. She was, she acknowledged, probably "the most liberal woman in the county, maybe the state." In 1923 she married James...
Like other revolutions of thought and arms, the new Nicaraguan order has set friend against friend, brother against brother. Four years after the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, one remarkable family embodies the ideological divisions that tear at the fabric of the country: the old and respected Chamorro clan, a wealthy political and publishing dynasty that has given Nicaragua four Presidents and three generations of newspaper publishers. In their differing and passionately held points of view, the Chamorros are a microcosm of a nation at odds with itself...
...park some place, though I've never seen it since." The leaves of the calendar tumble to reveal the present. The young lady, now at the other end of life, is Bette Davis, 74, and she is playing Alice Vanderbilt, the imperious matriarch of that gilded clan in Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, an NBC mini-series for next season. The scene now shifts back to Boston, where Davis' comments spark a two-week, city-wide search for the statue. Finally, Cornelius Vermeule, curator of classical art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, pieces together the available...
After its founding in Cairo in 1017, the enigmatic movement gradually spread to the Levant. Eventually it entrenched itself in particular in the heart of the Chouf, overlooking Beirut. During the 17th century an aristocratic Kurdish warrior clan, the Jumblatts (the name means heart of steel), joined the Druze and eventually became one of the group's two dominant families. At about the same time, the Druze formed an alliance with the Maronite Christians under the leadership of a Druze emir. In the 19th century, the aggressively ascendant Maronites sought to consolidate their power over Lebanon. Alarmed, the Druze...
...special allure, one that Dawkins believes offers an opportunity to develop a variety of expert skills. His friends predict that he will establish the obligatory Wall Street base and then go into politics. He leans to the Republican side, though he maintains close contact with the Kennedy clan. Says Dawkins: "I am very serious about doing something with my life. I'm very interested in public policy. But I'm also interested in business. One thing at a time." -By John S. DeMott...