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Within two minutes, three engines full of water and two ladder trucks packed with prongs and hooks cluttered Winthrop, JFK and Dunster Streets...
...Burnham's wife (Annette Bening), on the other hand, has taken a career-centered path to happiness, hoping to gain power and meaning by climbing up the real-estate business ladder. She sacrifices everything for career and seems to resent her daughter and husband, whose existences have impeded her upward mobility. This, too, of course, leads not to happiness but only more frustration and more powerlessness...
...that life can still be fun without an asterisk at the end. The Kroks know that they are charming, but they are, for the most part, just looking for applause and the invitation to sing one more, not to use their charm to ooze their way up a corporate ladder. It is charm for the sake of charm, not for use as a weapon. This is what endears them, at least to their Ryder Cup audience...
Ever since she was appointed an assistant professor (the lowest rung in the professorial ladder of assistant, associate, and full professorships) in 1980, Geller's tenure has been a point of contention...
...love the Consumer Product Safety Commission, nanny to the nation. They're the guys who put those impenetrable safety caps on aspirin bottles and rounded off the corners of our furniture; they're the original authors of WARNING: CONTENTS HOT and THIS LADDER IS TO BE USED FOR CLIMBING. Without the CPSC, Americans wouldn't know the dangers of rickety swing sets, toxic crayons or detachable doll's eyes. Last week the CPSC announced that parents shouldn't allow infants to sleep with them in bed, owing to the risk of suffocation, strangulation or death by "overlying"--when a sleeping...