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...quality of life so Chelsea doesn't grow up believing food just magically materializes on her plate. They went to the grocery store together, one day after Hillary picked up Chelsea from school, to get peanut butter and cereal, only to find that they had insufficient cash and no checkbook. Lately the First Mom has been helping her daughter make the perilous journey from age 12 to 13 in a new city without the close-knit extended family and friends of Little Rock. The elder Rodhams had stayed in the Governor's mansion with Chelsea when her parents were away...
...harrumphing that it's amateur night. That those out celebrating the millennium are no doubt the very same people who can't even spell it. (Two Ls, two Ns.) You can work yourself into a froth about how the calendar change promises only to render every check in your checkbook obsolete and produce a baby boomlet of Millies and Millards. As you down a glass of warm buttermilk before bed, you can note ! with satisfaction that the year is off to a bad start: ABC says Two Thousand, CNN says Twenty Hundred. Then you can fall asleep counting millennial sheep...
...rife that he longs to cap his political career with the German presidency. Some analysts reasoned that Genscher, Germany's most popular and peripatetic politician, knew he had shepherded his projects of European integration and East-West rapprochement as far as they could go. With the days of checkbook diplomacy ending for a nation strapped by the costs of unity, this was Genscher's chance...
...Relationship and, as a nod to the '90s, a 12-Step Birthday. Prices start at $16.95, delivery not included. If you can't find what you want, Love Letters will compose a custom letter or speech for you. How does that old song go: Love letters straight from your checkbook...
...press. The 1951 graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, who was an editor with both the Ladies' Home Journal and US magazine, admits that he paid Flowers for her story (though he will not say how much). But instead of proudly wallowing in the tabloid tradition of checkbook journalism, he sounds defensive about it. "We are not the first news-gathering organization to pay for interviews," he says. He claims the story is true because the Star has obtained tapes of telephone conversations between Flowers and the Arkansas Governor, but then refuses to have them verified independently...