Word: butlering
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Sitting in his office near Hayden Lake, Idaho, the leader of the Aryan Nations has the grim demeanor of a man under siege. Richard Butler growls that "Jews run the government" and that "Jewish conspirators" are intent on destroying him. A portrait of Butler's hero, Adolf Hitler, hangs on the wall, and white-robed figurines of Ku Klux Klansmen decorate a shelf. He fiddles with a booklet of Nazi war art and clicks his teeth as he talks. At 82, he has failed in his goal of founding a whites-only homeland, and now he faces the prospect...
...There's a third category - the gifts to lesser, later movies. The blind butler Jamessir Bensonmum in "Murder by Death." The mummified chief clerk in "Kafka." Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars," eyes glittering with wisdom, salvaging that tortured Lucas dialogue. Would there be a "Phantom Menace" without Guinness's saving injection of class in the first installment...
...once backed the charter-school campaign won a school board seat. Those who had been in the system all along are touting the benefits of vigilant parenting. "The more you hang around the school, the more your kid's going to get preferential treatment," says Dennis Butler, father of a fourth-grader. "I mean the teachers actually dust off your kids when they see you coming...
...fate decreed that the rest of us must abide these cantankerous old curmudgeons on Capitol Hill, thanks to the dullards who sent them there? And with those two entrenched Senators being favorite sons of their states, I can only shudder to think of what's to come. F. PATRICK BUTLER Innsbruck, Austria...
...Woman hits rock bottom and rebuilds life with kids (with BRETT BUTLER...