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...pretty damned scared to write that piece. My first year was a tough one. The ghosts in my emotional closet got up and stalked en masse through my Grays West room. The prospect of coming to terms with the year in print I found ironic. My troubled identity as a writer was the most ominous ghost of them all. Writing (trying to write is more accurate) was a tremendous source of pain. But it was also the way I survived...
...demonstrated by the current crisis in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). This crisis, which in the past two weeks has seen the British pound and Italian lira suspended from the ERM, the Spanish peseta significantly devalued, and the French franc under serious attack, has brought out of the closet all of the chauvinist habits of the pre-war years...
...THREE STUDENTS WHO STOLE A suitcase filled with cash from Sarah Edwards' classroom closet were pretty sure they had pulled a fast one. Granted, the cash was fake, but Edwards and her pupils had been using the money to learn some basic lessons in economics. Now, instead of studying supply and demand, the class was busy congratulating the thieves on their daring raid. Edwards' response? She held an auction -- only ersatz dollars allowed. The students' admiration swiftly evaporated as boxes of candy and toys went on the block and the pirates began buying up everything in sight. More effective than...
Japan has developed a computerized vacuum cleaner that lets itself out of the closet and does the house, and a word processor that works under water. Nice, but how about a device that might let someone take a day off every so often...
Despite hard times, Americans have been rushing money and supplies to the damaged areas. But in the long run, pluck and perseverance will no doubt prove to be the most trustworthy ally for Andrew's survivors. Mitch and Penny Burke, newly wed, emerged from a closet after the storm ripped through their comfortable home in southern Dade County to find they had lost almost everything -- dining-room furniture, bed, clothes, wedding gifts. The damage was so bad that their entire neighborhood may have to be razed. "We've got new wallpaper, but no walls," said Penny with resolute humor...