Word: cheryle
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Before I read Cheryl Mendelson's Home Comforts, I kept a lot of secrets. I didn't tell anyone that every day I take an old toothbrush to the crud that collects around the faucets, that I rarely talk on the phone without a bottle of Windex and paper towel in hand as I walk around wiping off fingerprints. Housework is the third rail of feminism. Do too much of it, and you are out of the sisterhood. Talk about it, and you will find yourself discounted at work and shunned at parties...
...Cheryl is not to be confused with Martha. She will not tie ribbons around 300-thread-count linens that someone else irons. (Mendelson says percale is fine and folding will do.) She will never crow over serving eggs laid by her own Araucana hens. Cheryl does not substitute crafts for life, and she has help only once a month or so. In her cozy Manhattan apartment, bikes are parked in the dining room, and the fridge door is a mess of notes, schedules and magnets. "Who can feel at home in a place where the demands for order are exaggerated...
Federal authorities also seized a white Mitsubishi in the garage at Logan Airport that had been rented at an Alamo office just off the airport, said Cheryl Budd, senior vice president for corporate communications for Alamo’s parent company...
...surprisingly tense contest yesterday, frontrunner State Senator Stephen F. Lynch won the Democratic party’s nomination for the 9th District congressional seat. Lynch beat out his closest competitor, Cheryl Jacques, by a margin of 12 percent--although early results showed a much closer margin. The special election drew a remarkably high turnout of about 110,000, much higher than any predictions...
Bearse’s confidence is not unfounded—in the latest Boston Herald poll, Lynch held a strong 39 percent, with his closest competitors, fellow State Senators Cheryl Jacques, Brian A. Joyce and Marc R. Pacheco foundering at 18 percent, 12 percent and 10 percent respectively...