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Finally, after moving up through subcontractors from Tijuana to Taipei in their search for Santa, the kids get to the Manhattan headquarters of We R Toys Inc. They ascend to the top floor, where they've been told the ceo will be found, and knock timidly on the boardroom door. But alas, they find only a group of identical pudding-faced men in pinstriped suits, sitting around an oval table. One of the executives rises and smiles warmly at the kids. "We heard about the personnel problems down at Pure Joy, and do we have a big surprise...
...Every mystery solved was my love for her in ellipses." When his father dies, the still underage son goes into a long tailspin: alcohol, drugs, sleeping in public parks, petty burglaries, time in county jails. Miraculously, he rights himself and becomes a published writer. "I was hot to ascend," he says. "Ascension meant two things. I had to write a great crime novel. I had to attack the central story of my life...
...ballot in almost all 50 states, has a national organization and has political positions on most of the major issues of the day isn't entitled to a national audience. How are new candidates ever going to break the two-party mold if they can't ascend a presidential podium...
Figuratively speaking, Princess Diana has been beheaded. Now all that remains is for Prince Charles to ascend the throne in due course; his appropriate name then would be King Henry VIII the Second. Long live hypocrisy! JOCELYN MARY SEEMANN Durban, South Africa...
...doffing of a tie to make voters see Bob Dole, Kansan, instead of Bob Dole, Capitol Kingpin. But there is consolation if they don't. Now that he has, as he put it so eloquently, left "behind all the trappings of power, all comfort and all security," he can ascend to what Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter called the highest office in a democracy, above even that of the presidency: citizen...