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...stone to mark the spot, in sharp contrast to the fanciful choices of many other grieving pet owners around the U.S. Kitty's resting place is becoming more and more elaborate. At Paw Print Gardens in Chicago, sealable cat caskets range from $39 to $139, and granite grave markers begin at $79, while top-of-the-line custom tablet markers go for more than...
...emotional restraint. Punkers, on the other hand, leave zippers sagging, shirts unbuttoned and wear safety pins through their cheeks as though the flesh itself is literally exploding with rage. The styles may be disparate, Lurie concludes, but "both graphically convey the sense of a world, or a personality, in grave danger of coming apart...
Stockman's extraordinary admissions to William Greider of the Washington Post--that he had grave doubts about the administration's economic program even as he was publicly advocating it--hurts both Stockman and the President a great deal. And they came at a particularly inopportune time for this suddenly floundering presidency. There has been vicious infighting between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and National Security Advisor Richard Allen. Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger Jr. '38 can't agree on whether or not NATO plans include a nuclear "warning shot" at the Soviet Union. And the president himself appears...
...production of China's farms, particularly those that raise the key crop of cotton. Ironically, the new system has also created a new problem simply because it is more efficient. Workers who are no longer needed on the farms have added to the country's already grave unemployment rate, which is estimated...
OVER THE YEARS, of course, anger against Wodehouse subsided somewhat, and his books (which at one point were banned in much of England and the U.S.) became once again popular. But, as Sproat writes, the notion that he had betrayed his country "followed him to his grave." As late as 1972, when Sproat tried to recommend Wodehouse (who during his life published more than 90 books) for knighthood, then-Prime Minister Edward Heath refused to back...