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...Grimm tale of Rumpelstiltskin, the dwarf whose skill as a tailor (he could spin straw into gold) ensnared a greedy miller and his beautiful young daughter. Here the miller is a middle-class man over hid head in debts for the wedding of his daughter Rosalba (glamorous, poised Laura Chiatti). Geremia lends the family more money than they can afford to pay and then, on the wedding day, extracts from Rosalba his own predatory pound-of-flesh interest on the loan...
...Lauren may be more different still. Her mom, her dad and her Uncle Darwin are all in Kuwait, and her Aunt Janis leaves this week. And if the fighting comes, her parents are likely to be the first married battalion commanders ever to fly into battle together. Lieut. Colonel Laura Richardson, 39, commands the 5th Battalion of the 101st aviation brigade, piloting the Black Hawks that ferry troops into battle; her husband, Lieut. Colonel Jim Richardson, 42, leads the 3rd Battalion, the Apaches that provide the protection and the firepower for those same troops. Individually they are rising Army stars...
...single mom watching her adorable baby girl bond with a caregiver on her post who always wanted a daughter: the baby sitter paints a room in her home pink and smiles when the baby calls her Mama, even when Mother is in the room. It is Laura Richardson's dad, a 68-year-old pediatrician, wondering whether he should get smallpox and anthrax vaccines, so that if his kids were in trouble he could get on a plane and help them. "I thought I could go over if one of my children was horribly maimed or something like that...
...pillowcases. Some have nightmares about their children being in pain or in trouble. Some recorded favorite books or hymns or lullabies before they left, so their kids could remember what Mama sounds like. Some put up maps in their children's bedrooms, so they will know where Mom is. Laura carries her family pictures in the humvee that takes her across the desert between base camps, and she doesn't have to be prompted to take them...
...Gajillionaire Ex-Wives' Club. Onetime model and antifur activist HEATHER MILLS, 38, and her Beatle husband of four years, SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY, 63, left, have officially announced their separation. And across the globe, former No. 1 golfer GREG NORMAN, 51, told an Australian newspaper that he is splitting with LAURA, his wife of 25 years. The question on most people's minds is not "Why?" but "How much?" McCartney's personal fortune, which includes part ownership of the Beatles brand, is estimated at more than $1.5 billion, and legal analysts surmise that if the couple, who have a 2-year...