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...exactly modesty either. And while Bush's success in lowering expectations for himself has worked with the press, it doesn't seem to be working as well with the folks at home, at least according to the latest CBS/New York Times poll, which suggests Bush's European jaunt didn't do anything to help his approval ratings...
...October I walked to Belmont Center while reading Moby Dick; passing the town’s high school on a jaunt two years later, I realized with a start that the sight of it conjured up a passage from Melville I had long since forgotten. I cannot walk to Porter Square on certain fall afternoons without feeling the golden antique light of Fitzgerald’s Princeton, because one sophomore-year Saturday I read This Side of Paradise on the median strip of Mass...
...details of Roach's white-collar crime spree--buying a $7,000 belt buckle, spending $30,000 on a London jaunt and missing her flight home in the process, jiggering her expense account and pawning her purchases in an attempt to hide her splurges--might and probably will provide fodder for a made-for-TV movie. And the ending will be, as demanded by the genre, upbeat. The employer Roach cheated paid her $150,000 a year. She now has a similar consulting job with another company and earns...
...wide-eyed followers on Sibley's Central Park jaunt was Miranda Holman, 11, who has been birding since she was eight. When she shyly approached Sibley for an autograph, he asked her to name her favorite bird. "The scarlet tanager," she quickly replied, whereupon the artist sketched a Sibley original of the forest dweller on her notepad. Miranda has seen only one scarlet tanager in her life, but if bird watchers can get their conservation act together, she may see many more...
...pity is, it can be done right. Years after the Florida trip, I ventured back onto a sleeper train for a totally different experience: My boyfriend and I booked ourselves onto the Coast Starlight, for a two-day jaunt from San Francisco to Seattle...