Word: cabin
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MAYBE ABE LINCOLN wasn't really born in a log cabin, but he certainly wasn't rich, or even middle-class. And he became president--while in the 1990's, Bob Kerrey and Paul Tsongas couldn't even afford to hang on until the Democratic Convention...
...Woods--by David Mamet. This is the lyrical and intimate story of a young couple's discovery of themselves and their relationship ovr the course of a weekend in an isolated cabin in the woods. You'll laugh, you'll cry. In the Leverett House Old Library Theater at 8 p.m. Admission is $4, $3 for students...
Talks is hardly the word. Tokyo's goal was to negotiate a victory in China, Washington's goal to negotiate a Japanese withdrawal. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, nearly 70, a longtime power on Capitol Hill, was a log-cabin- born Tennessee mountaineer who knew little of the Japanese and disliked what he knew. He once referred to Tokyo's envoys as "pissants." Japan's ambassador, Kichisaburo Nomura, 64, a one-eyed retired admiral and former Foreign Minister, was considered a moderate and so was mistrusted in Tokyo. It did not help that Hull had a speech difficulty, while...
...cider-chugging, born-in-a-log-cabin good ol' boy. Sort of like George Bush. Both of them were full of shit...
Death in a rusting van or a remote cabin is hardly a death with dignity. But, as the numbers of people who came to Kevorkian's defense yet again last week indicates, many among the general public have a profound fear that one day they too might lose control of their life and be left at technology's mercy. Until the medical profession and state legislatures address the issue systematically, a retired doctor with a bagful of poisons and an obsession will be viewed as a savior by frightened people in search of final peace...