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...diaper, put a portable potty within reach of your two-year-old and wait for the inevitable accident. "Kids that age hate to have 'it' running down their legs," Rosemond explains. "So they stop the flow, and you lead them to the seat. The $75 is for cleaning the carpet." Within a few days, he says, the child is trained--and knows who's boss. "This technique is not my idea," says Rosemond. "This is the way grandma trained her children...
...Monday, and in a first of potentially far greater importance, the Academy plans to produce its own pre-show. It's set to air live on ABC in the half hour before the main event, and the Academy has decreed that no other networks can broadcast from the red carpet during this time. Meanwhile GEENA DAVIS, who will host the pre-show, has promised not to ask arrivals about their outfits, which may leave little to talk about. "Maybe she'll ask them about algebra," muses JOAN RIVERS, who has traditionally owned that piece of airtime on the E! channel...
...Langley on Aug. 7 when the bombs went off in Africa. Within hours of the blast, the CIA's counter-terrorism officers began crowding into their "fusion center," a small room used to monitor terror crises overseas that is crammed with computers and large screens displaying satellite photos. The carpet still had burn marks from the time an excited Tenet dropped his cigar upon learning that CIA officers had apprehended Mir Amal Kasi, who had murdered two agency employees outside Langley. Tension was high as early casualty figures flowed in from Africa. Almost immediately, the CIA officers had a good...
...board of directors--most of whom were employees--to give him signed, undated resignation letters that he could use if they tried to vote against him. His closest employees, according to one biographer, formed the Occidental Mouseketeers--with official membership drawings of a cowering mouse on a red carpet. But they weren't as beaten as the ITT execs of the 1960s and '70s, who were regularly grilled and even sickened in large meetings with CEO Harold Geneen...
Last Wednesday, President Jiang Zemin arrived in Tokyo as the first Chinese head of state to visit Japan. Though the Japanese lavished dinner parties on the Chinese leader and rolled out the red carpet (literally), there was a snag in what should have been six days of photo opportunities: the absence of the simple word "sorry...