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...little girl is not into Sharing. She is a zealous guardian of her vast inventory of toys and games, her collection of more than 14,000 stuffed animals, even her handcrafted-from-natural-material playthings, given to her by liberals, which of course she never plays with. When another child ventures onto her turf and shows an interest in, say, one tiny stuffed llama made by Peruvian peasants from organic wool, the darling snatches it away, and her parents have to browbeat her into civility. The old man worries about this. I can visualize her as a selfish, overbearing snot...
...DIVORCED. PATRICK HOLLAND, 14, from his father, Daniel Holland, becoming the first child to divorce a parent on his own (without the assistance of a ward or guardian); in Canton in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Daniel Holland shot his wife Elizabeth in their Quincy, Massachusetts, home in 1998 and is serving a life sentence. Patrick discovered his mother's body. "No one should ever have to go through what I went through," he said last week...
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...heads of the E.U. member states. Usually, the best man for the job is defined as the candidate who's least offensive. It's a strange way to pick a top dog, but then again, the Commission presidency is a strange office. The President is the guardian of E.U. treaties that he and his institution have no direct say in formulating; he's the E.U.'s highest executive authority yet his voice doesn't count for much without the support of the member states. And when the E.U. succeeds, national politicians rush in to take the credit. Now, with...
Chase says she envisions herself more as a guardian of old American cultural traditions than as a revolutionary in the gourmet world of cooking...