Word: california
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Such mistakes have taken their toll through the departure of some once-loyal customers, particularly those with an eye for the latest trends. Tara Feinstein, 35, a free-lance journalist, recently browsed the aisles of a Nordstrom store in Woodland Hills, California, shopping for clothes for her three-year-old son. She walked out with two $20 T shirts and a sense of disappointment. "I remember being very excited when Nordstrom came to Southern California in the 1980s, and I shopped there exclusively," she recalls. "Now, when I think of Nordstrom, I picture brown and drab...
...same level for a number of months now." Physically, the former President, 86, remains active. He spends a few hours in his office most weekdays and sees occasional visitors. Accompanied by Secret Service agents and his nurse, Reagan strolls in Rancho Park or along the Santa Monica, California, beach. Last summer he still used his backyard pool...
What, indeed? University of California at Santa Barbara professor Jeffrey Burton Russell, author of the upcoming A History of Heaven (Princeton University Press), says, "I think [clerics] want to stay off the subject because they feel they're going to have to climb a wall of popular skepticism." A spokesman for the United Methodist Publishing House is reluctant to comment at all about heaven, explaining that the subject is "controversial." A brother in faith, the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman, whose Foundry Methodist Church is up the street from the White House, explains bluntly, "I'm not interested in speculating...
...nobility in the rustic provinces...as stubbornly patronizing and aloof as the locals were sometimes naive and gauche." The dachshund story sums them up--as it does the situation of most exiles in America in the late 1930s and '40s. Two dachshunds meet on the palisade in Santa Monica, California, and schmooze about their fortunes. "Here, it's true, I'm a dachshund," says one to the other. "But in the old country I was a Saint Bernard...
...celebrating a man who ruled like a dictator? China's leaders may come and go, but the oppression of the Chinese people lives on. Let us not lend prestige to evil. TOM DOWNES Encino, California...