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...tough standards pay off. While some Guardsmark guards run afoul of the law, the firm's record in 1991 was more than twice as clean as that of the New York City police department. And cleaner records translate into lower insurance premiums and happier clients. Rhode Island Hospital, the state's largest, switched two years ago, after using Wells Fargo. "We weren't satisfied with the quality of the ((Fargo)) guards or the image they portrayed," says Tony Kubica, a vice president at the hospital. "The Guardsmark guards were an amazing contrast...
...know it's Junior Parents Weekend when third-year undergraduates start making mad dashes to the laundry room and going on quests for the elusive vacuum cleaner...
...barns are lined with small, hay-filled, putrid-smelling stalls with "meuh"-ing cows. Inside a big auditorium, the farmers judge the bovine beasts on muscle tone and udder size. Outside, the opportunists hawk cheap jewelry and miracle carpet cleaner from makeshift booths. Kids get sick from the rollercoaster ride whizzing in circles and blasting loud rock music. It's dirty and confusing. And nobody speaks English for any tourist's benefit...
...alien in Ocean City -- the butt, at parochial school, of ethnic slurs by Irish-American classmates whose brothers served with the American forces liberating Italy during World War II. He even felt somewhat of a foreigner in his own family. His father Joseph, a workaholic tailor and dry cleaner, was strict, austerely religious, often remote; his cool, fastidious mother Catherine froze at human touch, even when clutching hands were her own children...
...thirtysomething Martha Horgan makes an odd heroine, lacking, as she does, all the protective and intuitive senses society demands. Her job at the local dry cleaner is so comforting, compared to the rest of her daily experiences, that Martha often shows up on her day off. Morris triumphantly evokes the sad, vivid life of a character excluded, for reasons she cannot grasp, from the magic circle of friendship and family...