Adriana, who became the foundation's president in 2009, points out that works by Latin-American artists now have a home at MoMA, where her mother sits on the board of trustees.

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She said Adam Lanza's mother "battled" with the school board and ended up having her son home-schooled.

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As Suzanne McKechnie Klahr explained in a November 20 interview, she grew up in a Manhattan home with a Scottish immigrant Christian father who was trained as an engineer and achieved business success and a Jewish mother who was a teacher with the Board of Education in Harlem.

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Sun Hung Kai's board later appointed Thomas and Raymond Kowk, along with their mother to head the company.

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Denise Fergus, James's mother, did not attend the hearing but made a statement to the parole board in writing.

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She spent her 21st birthday on board the rescue ship Carpathia, from where she wrote a letter to her mother, who had remained in Cornwall, saying she had been "thrown" into a lifeboat wearing just her nightdress and boots.

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Leslie Tobakos, mother of two college-aged kids, compared apples to apples on tuition, room and board and fees by making a spreadsheet to track the bottom line for each school.

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