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...week wore on. First had come the stomach pains. Then the bloody diarrhea. Then the paralyzing cramps. She had laid off food for a while, figuring the problem would pass. It didn't. Finally, as July 4 approached-when Lowery should have been at the Alpine, Wyoming, gift shop where she works, preparing for the crush of campers and tourists who make the Independence Day weekend such a busy one-she noticed that her son Sean, 5, had come down with the same symptoms. That did it. Struggling to get to the car, Lowery drove Sean to the office...
...Band-Aids in our welcome gift bag made us feel tough, but a lot more drinking than working goes on at Crush Camp. We stopped picking grapes after about an hour and raked grapes from bins into a crusher only long enough to pose for pictures. It took all of 10 minutes for us to take turns punching down a cap of skins into a small batch of Malbec with our hands, during which three of my campmates somehow refrained from making an I Love Lucy joke...
...maybe he and the people who make his movies just think he?s a dangerous guy. There is an unwillingness to just let him rear back and spritz for the length of a movie - as if they fear we, in the audience, will grow tired of his gift, often amounting a form of genius, for surrealistic free-association. They are always giving us, as writer-director Barry Levinson does in Man of the Year, tastes and tidbits of Williams in full cry, the while looking for calming cutaways, subplots and diversions that will permit us respite from his mania...
...expressed his gratitude in a press conference he conducted on the day that the capture of Jill's kidnappers was announced, and Jill directly thanked the men who participated in the operation. Also, the Monitor has offered to send the marine who wrote this letter and his unit 25 gift subscriptions to its weekly international edition...
...DeLay's Gift to the Democrats The controversial former House leader thought he could help the G.O.P. by getting out of this year's race. But his departure has thrown his home district into election chaos -- and very likely into the Democrats' hands