Malone grew up in Milford, Connecticut, the son of a vice president at General Electric.

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Like Mr. Bo, whose father was a renowned revolutionary leader, Mr. Zhang is often referred to as a "princeling" as the son of an army general who helped to fight a Japanese invasion and Chinese national forces.

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In 1991, as the Soviet Union was breaking up, a son of one of those deported families, Jokar Dudaev, who had risen to become a general in the Soviet airforce, led the overthrow of Chechnya's government and declared independence.

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At the time of the younger Mr. Kim's public debut in September 2010, his father announced appointments for three of his contemporaries his sister Kim Kyong Hui, her husband, Jang Song Thaek, and a trusted general Ri Yong Ho as a kind of protectorate around the son.

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The parents of a baby who died were not told about the possible retention of their son's organs, the General Medical Council (GMC) has heard.

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"Beau" Biden, Delaware's Attorney General and the son of the vice president, spoke at a news conference about the shooting.

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"I had a tremendous advantage, " said new Jets general manager John Idzik, the son of the former NFL assistant of the same name who took his son to training camps before he was in grade school.

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Although the diplomatic talk is of restraint, Mullen was anything but diplomatic in describing North Korea's leader, who Mullen said is acting in an effort to set up a succession plan for his son, whom he recently elevated to the rank of four-star general in the Korean military.

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Last month Rawi Sultani, the son of a prominent Israeli Arab attorney, was convicted of collecting intelligence information for Hizbullah concerning the whereabouts of Chief of General Staff Lt.

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