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...Disneyland for an impromptu performance. It was a big break not only for the Osmond Brothers but also for his five other children--most notably daughter Marie, who hosted a variety show with her brother Donnie in 1976. "We don't care which Osmond is out in front," the patriarch, who had 55 grandchildren, once said. "As long as it's an Osmond...
Back in the fall of 2003, “Arrested Development” first aired on American TV to critical acclaim. The witty comedy centered on a dysfunctional family’s struggles after its patriarch is imprisoned for murky deals with Saddam Hussein. Around the same time, audiences worldwide were introduced to a more extended family: one of popular, leftist leaders elected into office all around Latin America. Last Sunday, that family influence was maintained in Argentina for at least another four years, as Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the wife of President Néstor C. Kirchner...
...Assisi gathering - to be held in the southern city of Naples - Benedict made sure to offer not only his written words, but his physical presence. Indeed, the Pope's positive RSVP means that some of the most influential leaders of other faiths will arrive as well, including Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, Israel's chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, and the rector of the Al-Azhar University in Egypt, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb...
...after eight years in exile--the tomb's marble floors have been chipped and its peeling walls spray-painted with anti-Benazir graffiti. Bhutto fled the country in 1999 when facing charges of corruption, which she contends were politically motivated. "She has disgraced the Bhutto name," says clan patriarch Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, who considers her self-imposed exile in London and Dubai an attempt to escape her sins. "The stigma will stay forever." Not to worry, insists the tomb's custodian, Muhammad Issa. "We will whitewash the walls before she returns," he says...
...handicap the 2008 race. And out of that two-hour rump session came the warning that within 48 hours landed in every political inbox: If Republicans go ahead and nominate the "pro-abortion" Rudy Giuliani, social conservatives will consider a third-party candidate in 2008. Republican leaders, explains conservative patriarch Richard Viguerie, "think they can holler, 'The bogeyman's coming, the bogeyman's coming!' every four years, and conservatives will get on board. There is zero evidence of that. They think we will be so afraid of Hillary and losing the Supreme Court that we will just fall in line...