Word: patriarch
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...Sayeed Hassan Olow, 41, the patriarch of his family of nine, each day begins with the household chores. Olow wakes up early at 4 a.m., prepares food for his kids and sends them to school. By 8 a.m. he's already at the Lazimpat café meeting his countrymen, and he returns home only in the evening. Without the legal right to work and a monthly allowance of $55 handed out by the UNHCR, keeping food on the table can be a challenge, and the sense of isolation is strong. As Muslims living in a Hindu-majority nation, they have...
MacFarlane's best show, American Dad, is also his lowest rated - maybe because it isn't simply a remake of Family Guy. Yes, its protagonist, CIA agent Stan Smith, is a nuclear-family patriarch. And where Family Guy has a talking dog and Cleveland a talking bear, Dad has both a talking alien (a show-tune-obsessed card with a voice like Paul Lynde's) and a talking goldfish. (See the worst TV spin-offs of all time...
...mother. These ideals have too often been trampled by greed or myopic self-interest. But the positive impact they have had on the world cannot be denied. Asia has risen to new heights of wealth and power partly because of American policy, consumers and corporate practices. As Singapore's patriarch Lee Kuan Yew once told me, "Without the United States providing security and stability throughout the region, there would have been no growth...
...wrote The Pleasure of His Company, which, unlike most Camelot memoirs, was able to humanize Kennedy and offer an intimate glimpse into his personality. Fay recounted witnessing Joseph Kennedy, the family patriarch, scold his children during a dinner in 1959 for spending too much money. After an uncomfortable silence, JFK piped up, "We've come to the conclusion that the only solution is to have Dad work harder." As Fay observed, it was classic Jack...
...Family patriarch Joe Jackson was also front and center. He was one of the first family members to arrive at the event, exiting one of their five rented Phantom Rolls Royces with his grandchildren in tow. A controversial figure, Joe spoke at the funeral in defense of his son. "He felt people had been trying to cheat Michael," says the guest. "He said that they will find out what led to Michael's death. And said they will not rest until they found...