"There ought to be a way to keep it in the family, " thought Atlanta attorney John Scroggin.

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He added that FoI requests relating to the Royal Family also needed to be dealt with in a "sensitive way with a lot of consultation".

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Gypsies and Travellers based in Newport told BBC Wales in February that the creation of small official family sites would be the best way to help their community.

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But it would be important that it was done in a way that was sensitive to the feelings of the grieving family.

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"With the rapidly changing way in which our society has begun to define family, it would be a worthwhile public policy discussion to have if there should be parity of disclosure for those who are simply domestic partners yet not married, " Dadey said.

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If the Rajapaksas want a dynasty preserved for many years, preparing the way for a young insider, untainted by any role in the war, could be the family's canniest strategy.

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Its clock tower only has only three faces with none that could be seen by the new duke as he passed by in his private train on his way to Dunrobin Castle, his family's property in Sutherland.

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"If in some way I could help get the House back, I would be paying tribute to the best of my family legacy, " Kennedy said at a recent fund-raiser in Cherry Hill, N.

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Indeed, you will be celebrating your New Year in much the same way that we Americans mark our holidays -- by gathering with friends and family, exchanging gifts and stories, and looking to the future with a renewed sense of hope.

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