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Another summer is upon us and with it come the sounds of the season; children splashing in backyard pools, the sizzling of burgers on the grill and the nation's social fabric being hopelessly torn by the two misnamed sides of the abortion debate...
...among government agencies. "We spend more money trying to determine whether people are eligible for services than we do in serving them," Reno says. "We've got to figure out how to take the federal bureaucracy and weave it together as a whole, so that we can reweave the fabric of society around our children...
...Seersucker. This miracle fabric (along with khaki) worked for the British Empire, at least for a while. It works for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. It can work...
...pulls off her expanded ( role, she is also responsible for the traditional duties of a First Lady. Ceremonial events, like dinner for the country's Governors or tea with the King and Queen of Spain, don't stop because there is a deadline on managed competition. Paint chips and fabric swatches also fall under her jurisdiction. She is redecorating the private quarters to suit her informal style, which favors quilts and rocking chairs. She has already moved a table and white wicker chairs into the kitchen upstairs so that the family can eat breakfast and dinner in a cozier manner...
...haunting beauty and challenges of range life. "They are an endangered species," she says. These ranchers, she insists, not only supply a vital link of the food chain but also carry with them the cowboy heritage that is so much a part of American history. They are the fragile fabric of Western society that occupies the vast spaces and holds them together. "Reluctant heroes," Ryan calls them, a breed that stayed and endured rather than running off to the promises of suburbia...