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...Dolley Madison had watched for the progress of the British marauders through White House windows with a small telescope. When she saw the smoke from the fire at the Capitol, she ordered the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington cut from its frame and rolled up, put in a cart with other valuables and trundled off to Virginia. That is the image of Dolley Madison that lives on in history. But in the immediate aftermath of the sack of Washington, the press vilified both her and her husband for cowardice even as the new nation experienced a depressing--but temporary...
...they want their food," she calls to Little Brook, who has momentarily left his shopping cart full of bread to inspect some of the birds close...
...pinning its hopes primarily on NOW. Launched initially in London in June, now has so far garnered a lukewarm response. NOW is trying to keep a step ahead of fast-moving times by using broadband, but the rest of Asia is barely connected. "It's like inventing the cart before you have the horse," says Hendale Asia's Lee. "CyberWorks may be too far ahead of its time...
...Estimated shopping-cart thefts in the U.S. annually--an average of one every 90 seconds...
...back of my neck from the massive cringe I suffered through the rest of the movie. After being crowned Miss Illinois, Mona tries to outdo Miss Texas (Bridget Wilson) who was hospitalized for giving marrow to her foster sister in meaningless altruism. One particular scene in which she carts a pregnant woman to the hospital in a shopping cart full of marshmallows (no, it doesn't make more sense when you actually see it) had me gawking in dumbfounded amazement at the brazen act of courage which it must have taken for the producers to actually put the scene...