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...hectors her husband about his affairs with his nurses and the upkeep of their house and gardens. She tells Pearl, a Yale undergraduate who is spending a year abroad at Oxford, to avoid English homosexuals and "to concentrate on nice normal boys if you can find any in that dear decadent old country." She accuses her widowed mother living in Florida of financial imprudence and of ruining her skin in the sun: "I was shocked to see how brown you were. You looked dyed, frankly, and with your tinted hair the effect was honestly bizarre...
...Olympics is something near and dear to my heart," Cleary said. "I think playing in the Olympics should be the goal of every young person...
...course of the renewed discussion, the question was also put about my premature departure from the office of federal president," he said. "I want to take a stand in all clarity: You, my dear Austrians, have elected me federal president with a convincing majority in a secret and direct election for six years...
Many Britons seem prepared to accept that British manners, a tradition no less dear than the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, are in decline. What roils some Brits is that Americans are giving the advice. Harrumphed a commentator in the Daily Mail: "Surely it is the depth of bureaucratic rudeness to imply there is not a single native of these shores capable of inculcating patience and good manners...
...Frenkel believes professional women must stop taking another woman's success as a personal affront. "They have to separate out business from personal issues," she says. For some women, that's impossible, as Laura Srebnik, 33, a Manhattan computer educator, discovered when she suddenly found herself supervising a "dear friend" at a political lobbying group. The friend, she says, became hostile, talked about her behind her back and then quit. The parting explanation, says Srebnik, was "that I had become one of 'them' " -- the power structure. For some women in the workplace, that is still the ultimate insult...