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...paved driveway. Derwin and Phyllis Brown's son, Robert, 18, looked out a front window to see his father, who had parked in the street, walking up the driveway with a bounce in his step, carrying Christmas gifts he had bought that afternoon. There was also a bouquet of red roses for his wife in the car. Expecting him, Phyllis had displayed his new blue sheriff's uniform in the den. Derwin had designed it himself, with gold stars and braid, and he had been anxious for the tailor to finish it. His good friend and confidant Robert Crowder...
...down a street, and sobbing at her first solo sunset. "I married at 19 and had always traveled with my husband," she says. "I thought, How am I going to do this by myself?" Today Hannon can handle much rougher stuff. Her tip for dealing with the exotic bouquet of some foreign toilets? Dab menthol lip balm under your nose and journey...
...stateroom in A Night at the Opera. Visitors poured into an office stacked with newly delivered furniture. As a third camera crew pushed its way in her face, Carnahan rolled a chair to position a rescue for a pregnant woman about to topple. There was barely space for the bouquet of lilies sent by Missouri's senior Senator, Kit Bond, or the senatorial documents already arriving. Her first headline event is the confirmation hearings of Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft, the Carnahan family's longtime political adversary, whom her husband beat for the Senate seat. About Ashcroft's hearings...
...much as losing to Harvard is always a bad thing, it was the best thing that could have ever happened to our team," said Banghart, surrounded by a massive crowd of adoring grade-school girls while towing a bouquet of flowers for every record she had broken that night. "We changed everything. Everyone stepped up. We're just a whole different team...
...people who have led a pretty unreal life ever refer to people as real people. His father's first race was in 1964, when George W. was already 18. Gore, on the other hand, was soaked in politics from birth. His mom and dad were born poor; her bridal bouquet was an armful of weeds he scooped up on the roadside. Gore's father saw government as a means of making life fairer. "Nothing cures poverty like money," Gore Sr. would say, and he believed in rearranging it as necessary. He was elected to Congress before Al was born...