Word: sisterly
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When Elie Wiesel was 15, he, his family and his Jewish community were taken from their homes in the small Transylvanian town of Sighet and transported by train to Birkenau, the reception center for Auschwitz. During the days and months that followed, Wiesel lost his parents, his sister, his innocence and his peace. Witness, activist, writer and sage, Wiesel has since devoted his life to the fight for human rights and for remembrance...
Before Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers arrived in Miami to see him last week, Cuban Americans confronted the nun at whose home the meeting would take place. They demanded that Jeanne O'Laughlin, a Dominican sister and president of Miami's Barry University, prove there were no trapdoors in her house from which agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service could jump out to seize the boy. Then when the grandmothers landed in Miami, their Cuban handlers kept them on the tarmac for an hour to deliver words of warning. Beware, they told the 51-year-old matriarchs: Miami's Cuban...
...Quinn?" She doesn't ask. She shrieks. Quinn is Carson's sister. It frightens me that I know...
...addition to his wife, Miller is survived by his son, Bradley; two daughters, Shelley Miller Bernson and Beth Miller; his sister Sandra Wilensky and his grandson, Edward Field Bernson...
...Porter gave up a chance to go to London with his sister in order to call supporters, wave signs on street corners and help set up events...