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...even more elaborate garden. But at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, the Peis were forced to move into the servants' quarters and donate the main house and grounds for a new middle school. Still, the Peis?many of whom had dispersed overseas?managed to keep the house's deed in their name. In 1979, Bei and her husband quietly moved back into the mansion. Over the years, they have slowly restored the house, peeling off the concrete and paint that Red Guards had poured over the woodwork and colorfully tiled floors...
...deed on the white, clapboard-and-brick house at 41 Armour Rd. was recorded on August...
...mayor of Friendship Heights, Md., has proposed an outdoor smoking ban because, according to the Washington Post, "citizens with asthma or other illnesses 'cannot have full access' to areas where smokers are doing their evil deed. The mayor compares this horrific possibility to Rosa Parks being sent to the back...
...Craig Allin, professor of political science at Iowa's Cornell College and an expert in public land management, this particular action could remain unscathed at the federal level. "The situation that will confront the new Congress and new President, should they choose to fight this order, is difficult. The deed is done, and undoing it would require extensive and complicated processes involving scientific studies and garnering public opinion," says Allin. "You'd have to be pretty committed to that. I'm sure this protection action is something Bush wouldn't have undertaken on his own, but I wouldn...
...rural South, where nearly every-one--at least in popular fiction--is either ruttin' randy or picturesquely deranged. Annie can't do a good deed without getting whacked around by Donnie, the inbred ingrate. When she complains to a cop about him, the cop offers this blithe appraisal: "He's high-strung." No more so than the script, by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson; it is given to violent outbursts amid its sullen patches, and plot twists that don't strain plausibility so much as ignore...