Word: cooking
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...dilapidated keeper's house, where they lived. But they would do it again--if that particular caretaking position weren't so sought after. Instead, the couple returned to a home on Maquoit Bay, Maine, where they house-sit nine months of the year while the owner is in the Cook Islands doing research on whales...
...women." Though a small staff took care of the grounds and meals, the house manager was looking for someone to live on-site. Hanks signed on, and for the next three years, she lived in her own small cottage, created special events for the residents, filled in when the cook was gone and received $1,300 a month...
DIED. ROBIN COOK, 59, former British Foreign Secretary who resigned from Prime Minister Tony Blair's Cabinet in 2003 to protest the war in Iraq; after collapsing during a mountain hike; in Inverness, Scotland. Known for his debating skills and scandalous divorce, Cook declined to run against Blair for Labour Party leader in the '90s, declaring, "I am not good-looking enough...
...sold more CDs than Gwen Stefani and Coldplay last week, without humming a tune. DANE COOK'S Retaliation is the highest-charting comedy album (No. 4 on Billboard) since Steve Martin's A Wild and Crazy Guy in 1979. Though his success surprised most of the off-campus public, "I kind of felt the rumblings of this happening," says the Boston stand-up star, whose college fans throw listening parties for his albums. Next Cook plays "in-your-face, misogynistic, rude cook Floyd" in the feature-film comedy Waiting. Sounds like a guy whose wait is over...
...fair share of embarrassing scandals, the son of legendary Mayor Richard J. Daley has largely managed to avoid his father's notoriety for cronyism and back-room dealing, a record of corruption that led to a federal ban in 1983 on almost all politically motivated hiring in Cook County. Instead Daley has won praise for spurring economic development, reducing crime and trying to reform public housing and education--which earned him a place as one of America's Best Mayors in TIME earlier this year. But now it seems that legacy may be in jeopardy, and some political observers question...