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So the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding is not complete fantasy? They both shake their heads. "Not that far off," says John. "Exaggerated, but not far off."Marilena's mother came to Stirling and stayed for four months to help with Maria. That's the way Greek families are. "Family life seems a bit different here," says Marilena. Behind the bar, Patrik agrees. Albania is not in the EU, so his family cannot get visas, and if he can afford to, he spends £500 twice a year to go back to see them. "But you get brothers and sisters here, one who lives in Stirling and the other in Glasgow, and they don't see each other for six months," he says, clearly baffled.The human instinct to explore, to aim further than home, has always fuelled immigration, but as people get older, they also often experience the homing instinct.
Monday wild card
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Guilty verdict in double killing
Summers was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Shelly and Ples Vann Jr., who were shot Feb. 23, 2004, in their home at 38 E. 50th Place North.
Shelly Vann was the mother and Ples Vann the stepfather of Lawrence "Bud" Tennyson, who was then a leading member of the Neighborhood Crips gang, evidence showed.
Prosecutors theorized that the murders were linked to gang rivalry and a belief among the Hoover Crips that Tennyson was responsible for the murder of one of Summers' brothers.
In the "messed-up" gang value system, parents and children are "off-limits" as targets, .
Madeleine is more than a news story, she symbolises the dangers all ...
That trite remark is not intended to illustrate the old myth of dispassionate objectivity. Nor is it an attempt, particularly, to give a human face to a sometimes inhumane trade. It's just a fact, and blindingly obvious. Sorry about that. In this trade we know a little about a lot of things, but there are many things we can never know. How does it really feel to be Tony Blair, or a suicide bomber, or a Saudi princeling? What, if anything, goes on in the mind of a movie star, or a Darfur refugee, or a musical prodigy? We can do youinformation,speculation,andempathy, sometimes. Omniscience is not our game. But parenthood? That's a species marker, more often than not. It's the reason why new fathers and mothers will bore you witless over dinner with the one topic of which they never tire.
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