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Gleason and his blockmates, however, ended up having brunch in one of the river houses--to their dismay they were assigned to Pforzheimer House...
...matches, a thrown shoe or two. Both Bill and Hillary had volatile tempers, which they didn't hesitate to inflict on each other. To longtime observers, it was an essential dynamic of their relationship, and the fights were often followed by loving reconciliations. But privately, Hillary expressed pain and dismay. She sought out the husband of one close friend, trying to understand why Bill would be so unfaithful. Did he cheat on his wife? Did he know other men who did? How should she react? How should she feel? Hillary seemed in equal parts puzzled and hurt...
...READ WITH DISMAY YOUR ARTICLE "Caribbean Blizzard" [WORLD, Feb. 26]. Your remarks about "the Bird dynasty" looking the other way as drug traffickers operate in Antigua are unfair. Vere C. Bird has been a faithful servant of the people of Antigua and Barbuda; his two sons Lester and Vere Jr. have undergone the same kinds of political tests all other politicians face in democratic countries. For instance, it was Prime Minister Lester Bird who insisted on the public inquiry into Vere Bird Jr.'s involvement with an illegal transshipment of guns, placing his loyalty to the country above that owed...
House practice rooms solve some of the space and timing crunch, but the poor acoustics and out-of-tune pianos of some houses dismay many musicians...
...filled with dissemblers who mask their age and even their sex, usually to enjoy, or avoid, the attention showered on women in chat rooms and bulletin boards. A 43-year-old Bostonian who thought he was having a hot fling with a 23-year-old woman discovered to his dismay that "she" was an 80-year-old man in a Miami nursing home...