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They have their own entrances: a mother-in-law suite on the first floor, a back door for dirty kids, a front door for first impressions.
-- After my infant son has done one of those cute things that portend a definitely-not-ordinary childhood, my mother-in-law asks, “What would Mr. [ sic ] Spock say?”
Still, the undisputed king of graft seems to have been Jean-Claude Ganga, an influential IOC member from the Republic of Congo, who asked for medical treatment for himself, and a free knee replacement for his mother-in-law.
British playwright David Hare, criticized in the past for his "preachy politics," is said to have finally found "his way beyond polemic" (John Lahr, The New Yorker ). Hare's new play about a self-centered film critic, his wife, and his mother-in-law is hailed as a "coup de théâtre " (Matt Wolf, Variety ), both for its social critique (of the amorality of the news media) and for its sensitivity "about such personal matters as loss, grief and stoical survival" (Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). Hare's enthusiasts declare it time for canonization.
-- Eric Anderson, neighbor of Atlanta mass murderer Mark Barton, on the murder of Barton's first wife and mother-in-law several years earlier