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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Chairman,” as he insists on being called, knows the meaning of entitlement. He swore at me that there would be no peace unless I ceded him complete control of the mantle and three out of five of my dresser drawers. When I gave him the top two and bottommost drawers, he stormed away muttering about the viability of a non-contiguous arrangement...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: Arafat Floats In | 9/17/2003 | See Source »

...have the top three dresser-drawers, and I gave him the mantle, too. After all, his Nobel Peace Prize deserves it more than my CUE Guide. But still he wasn’t happy. Abu Mazen wanted his top bunk even though I’m four inches taller than...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: Arafat Floats In | 9/17/2003 | See Source »

...education and Social Security, on health care for the elderly, on the economy and taxes, on living wages and job creation. To win in 2004, Democrats should not run against Bush at all. Instead they should run against Republicans and all that the party stands for. BRUCE H. THORSTAD Dresser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 9, 2003 | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...would kick start the modern gay-rights movement? The uprising was inspirited by a potent cocktail of pent-up rage (raids of gay bars were brutal and routine), overwrought emotions (hours earlier, thousands had wept at the funeral of Judy Garland) and drugs. As a 17-year-old cross-dresser was being led into the paddy wagon and got a shove from a cop, she fought back. "[She] hit the cop and was so stoned, she didn't know what she was doing--or didn't care," one of her friends later told Martin Duberman, author of the history Stonewall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25382 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...can’t drape a towel over a microwave in the middle of a room without us noticing,” Gingo said. “We look at anything out in the open, in closets and under beds and desks. But we don’t open dresser drawers or trunks or personal objects like that...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Will Still Allow Microfridges | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

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