Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where they play with blocks, stacking toys, a plastic mirror on wheels. On one recent afternoon, Early pushed the mirror toward 11-month-old Aubrey. "See that?" she said, "That's you!" The youngest babies are placed in infant seats, unless Early or Devougas has got them in her lap. "We sit and hold them," Early says, "play with their hands and feet and talk to them...
Like a kid fresh from Santa's lap, Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye announced yesterday that the Kennedy School is getting exactly what it wants for Christmas--the return of Mary Jo Bane, the former assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
...because women's groups keep reminding him that they did much to get him re-elected. So it was left to her friends and admirers to revel in the idea of a Secretary of State who sorted out the future of Bosnia while cuddling a grandchild on her lap, who knits and cooks and wears red suits and goes antiquing with Barbra Streisand, who keeps a miniature broom in her office sent by a critic who called her a witch for supporting sanctions on Saddam Hussein, who passed out bags of cookies decorated with hearts to members of the Security...
Because I sit with my foot elevated on the desk and my keyboard cradled in my lap, I feel good. Granted, that is probably because my foot is numb, but I am happy to have played this weekend. My tendon is probably slightly sprained and I'll be able to play again in time for racquetball or maybe even our volleyball match tomorrow. Injuries last days; IM points and records count for the whole year...
...what should have been a last, sweet lap to victory across 17 states in six days first required an attempt at respectability. "We have, clearly, one more big job to do," said the President as he campaigned Friday in Santa Barbara, California. "Everybody knows the problems of campaign money today: there's too much of it, it takes too much time to raise, and it raises too many questions." A President who helped his party raise an astonishing $250 million from entities ranging from American Ambulance & Oxygen to the U.S. Tobacco Co. proposed eliminating "soft money" contributions--the unlimited donations...