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WYATT PALMER IS THE ASSIStant city manager of Five Oaks, Michigan. His wife Susan likes to walk on her hands, pull her pet rabbit out of a hat and construct miniature stage sets. Aunt Ellen is writing the Bible, and Wyatt's sweetly psychotic mother Jeanne makes up 50 cents words like nutomberized, descorbitant and corilineal, which she defines as "so normal, it's strange...
Wyatt and Susan sometimes sound as if they were born and raised in a Garrison Keillor monologue about quirky loners and appealing blasphemers. Aunt Ellen's Scripture-in-progress posits a God that is neither loving nor vengeful, only curious. "You might as well pray to a telephone pole," she says. "I mean, if God loved us, we would know it, wouldn...
...have found that men resort to violence because they want to control their partners, and they know they can get away with it -- unlike in other relationships. "A lot of people experience low impulse control, fear of abandonment, alcohol and drug addiction, all the characteristics of a batterer," says Ellen Pence, training coordinator for the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth. "However, the same guy is not beating up his boss...
...Laurent--Marie-Claude Pelletier, Paulette Cormier (2); Harvard--Winkie Mleczko, Joey Alissi. A: St. Laurent--Ginette Descheres (2), Nathalie Pelland, Nancy Robitaille; Harvard--Diana Clark, Ellen Framp, Holly Leitzes, Kim Landry...
Tommy's sudden closing came as a shock to many faithful customers. Said Ellen O. Carr '94, "It's taken out a whole chunk of my life and forced me to think of other places to go." Carr, who often bought coffee ("the cheapest thing there") said that she could go to Cafe Pamplona, "but it's just not the same...