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...never happened. But then somebody gave me a ski jacket as a birthday gift a few years ago. Somebody else bought me ski pants. Finally, last Christmas, when my sister got me a pair of goggles and an electric red hat, I didn't have an excuse...
...boycotting works too. Arizona lost an estimated $500 million in business in the two years after it defeated a motion to declare Martin Luther King Jr.' s birthday a state holiday. The voters finally decided that an extra day off was preferable to permanent blacklisting. A successful boycott of Colorado would send a muscular message to other states considering such an initiative: Don't. "Sanctioning discrimination," says Anderson, "is bad for business." Does it really matter, then, if a boycott is also bad for the pleasure of Hollywood royalty...
Even if she forever remains legally a part of the family, Diana has made it clear in recent weeks that she relishes the prospect of going her own way. On the weekend of Nov. 14, while Charles was home celebrating his 44th birthday, Diana made a high-profile trip to Paris that turned into a triumph. Looking relaxed and radiant, she spent nearly two hours with the Mitterrands, much of it with the President himself. She appears confident discussing humanitarian and social issues in such powerful surroundings and invariably wins the rapt attention of Presidents and ministers with a distinctly...
...defiant ignorance voiced by many VCR-phobics may be a sign of technology backlash. "I'm electronically incorrect," says Kathy Harrison of Raleigh, North Carolina, who got a VCR for her birthday four years ago and hasn't taped a show yet. "I don't like appliances." Or it may be merely another case of American don't-know-how. In City Slickers, Billy Crystal spends much of one day on the trail fruitlessly trying to explain to Daniel Stern how to tape one show while watching another. "He'll never get it!" cries their partner, Bruno Kirby...
...paddle, a belt and a two-by-four -- that Roy's stepfather gave him, his younger sister and brother, and his mother. Teachers reported their suspicions of abuse; relatives tried to intervene. But each time, police officers and social workers left the children in the home. On his 17th birthday, Roy shot and killed his stepfather on their front porch as he came home from work...