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...Brown, Secretary of Commerce --Eleanor Dean Acheson, Assistant Attorney General --Mary Jo Bane, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services --Federico Pena, Transportation Secretary --Donald K. Stern, U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts --Lawrence H. Thompson, principal deputy commissioner, Social Security Administration --Shirley S. Chater, Social Security commissioner
...Thomasina (Gretchen Cleevely), who is busily deducing the physics of heat without the use of mathematics and to the astonishment of her dashing tutor, Septimus (Conner Trinneer), a craggy landscaper who wishes to redesign Arcadia in a more gothic style, including a hermitage and a rented hermit, and Ezra Chater (Stephen Temperley), a second-rate poet. Oh, and Lord Byron also wanders about the premises, though, sadly, off-stage...
...academics, Hannah Jarvis (Kandis Chappell) and Bernard Nightingale (Terence Caza), are busy combing through the library looking for evidence about why Byron left England in such a god-awful hurry, how the tutor Septimus may have been involved, the identity of the rent-a-hermit, and who, exactly, Ezra Chater was. As they work through these various literary-historical mysteries, they also flirt with the waspish residents of the house, Valentine and Chloe Coverly (Willis Sparks and Annika Peterson). Oh, and a mute kid wanders about the premises. Sadly, he is mostly on stage...
Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner Social Security Administration Baltimore, Maryland...
...KNOW A GOVERNMENT program is in trouble when it's less credible than a flying saucer. At a Senate committee hearing last month to reconfirm Shirley Chater as commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Republican Alan Simpson of Wyoming confronted Chater with a poll showing that more people under the age of 35 believe in UFOs than in the prospect that Social Security will pay them benefits upon retirement. Whatever the merits of their judgment on extraterrestrials, on Social Security the new workers have it exactly right. Given enough time, reality bites...