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When the book begins, Harry is living in a cupboard under the staircase in his aunt and uncle's house. His parents died when he was an infant, and his relatives treat him as a nuisance...
...Internet. Crazes among schoolchildren provide particularly tidy examples. When I was about nine, my father taught me to fold a square of paper to make an origami Chinese junk. It was a remarkable feat of artificial embryology, passing through a distinctive series of intermediate stages: catamaran with two hulls, cupboard with doors, picture in a frame--and finally the junk itself, fully seaworthy or at least bathworthy, complete with deep hold and two flat decks, each surmounted by a large square-rigged sail...
...plays the legacy game anymore. The once amusing pastime is gathering dust in some White House cupboard of the mind, because the footnote is threatening to swallow Clinton. Even if he stays in office--and it would be foolish to count him out--the scandal has ruined his Administration's crucial sixth year (typically a two-term President's last best hope for getting big things done) and perhaps his seventh and eighth as well. Clinton's bid to define his place in history--by launching the age of postdeficit politics with a small but activist domestic agenda...
Fleming Companies, an Oklahoma City-based wholesale food distributor and owner of the Piggly Wiggly supermarket franchise, has developed a concept called Chef's Cupboard in 150 of its markets, offering food on a par with Boston Market. Fleming has also begun a new market prototype in Hartsfield, Ohio, called the IGA Supercenter. At the 62,000-sq.-ft. grocery behemoth, shoppers can drop off their kids at an on-site center and monitor them on TVs set up in the aisles; pick up traditional food or a hot entree, or take a lesson at IGA's cooking school; withdraw...
Poor Joel Klein. It's less than two days after he spearheaded the Fed-state attack on Microsoft -- the largest antitrust lawsuit of the century -- and the trustbusting assistant attorney general has announced that his cupboard is bare. Apparently a 275-strong legal staff and $95 million in government funding is not enough in these days of monopoly and merger, and Klein requires a budget boost of "certainly several million dollars...