Word: fathered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush's campaign appearance Sunday, in which he was joined by several members of his family, including his father, ex-president George Bush: "I don't think the jury's out on whether it had a positive impact at all. It may have even been a negative. The elder Bush had his share of problems in New Hampshire, so there may be a negative memory of that which could have hurt [the younger] Bush...
...Buddy is narrated by Bud Caldwell, 10, who goes "on the lam" from an unpleasant foster home in Flint, Mich., in search of his father. Like his resourceful young hero, Curtis grew up in Flint. After graduating from high school, he joined the assembly line at Fisher Body Plant No. 1 and began writing during his breaks. He didn't set out to be a children's author. But, he says, "I felt I had a story to tell, and for some reason the voice came to me as a 10-year-old." Many years and several jobs later...
...father of two children, 21 and 8, Curtis credits his wife Kaysandra, a registered nurse, for encouraging him to write full time. The financial sacrifice has paid off: "As soon as this award was announced, my wife went from house hunting to mansion hunting...
This week in New Hampshire, U.S. activists plan to show up waving placards demanding that AL GORE take a stand. Why Gore? Because he helps control up to $500,000 worth of Oxy stock inherited from his father AL GORE SR., a longtime Occidental board member. Those shares could be worth a lot more if Oxy strikes it rich in Colombia; activists also note that Occidental's chairman, RAY IRANI, gave Democrats $100,000 shortly after he spent the night in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House. The executive director of the Sierra Club, among others, wrote the environmentally...
...similar job with cousin Michael Kennedy's nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp. In 1997, however, Skakel talked to police about his cousin's affair with a 15-year-old babysitter. (Michael died in a 1997 skiing accident.) Soon after, Skakel moved from Massachusetts into the Florida house owned by his father in an expensive gated community. Still, Robert Kennedy Jr. told the New York Times last week that Skakel "is as honest as daylight...a genuinely good and decent soul...