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...Wood Ants all over that part of Surrey chose Midsummer Day for their nuptial flight. No one was prepared for this in 1861--indeed, the young adults and the school-room inhabitants were all partaking of a strawberry picnic on the lawn when the swarming began, and hundreds of frantic, tumbling creatures, male and female, dropped out of the sky and into the cucumber sandwiches and the silver cream jugs, scurrying away in attached pairs, drowning in strawberry juice and Orange Pekoe, scrambling across spoons and lace doilies...
...masterly exercise in fawning self-promotion. It includes details of the good works she would do during her parole, newspaper editorials calling for her release, doctors' reports on her allegedly failing health and even letters from well-wishers, including one man who offers to distribute buttons, bumper stickers and lawn signs emblazoned with the words FREE LEONA. It was presented in court by Helmsley's lawyer with the aid of a kind of professional called a sentencing consultant, one of a growing breed of specialists who counsel convicted offenders on how to avoid or cut down on prison time...
Bill Clinton's mind was plainly on that other war, in Europe, when he greeted soldiers just home from Mogadishu in a photogenic ceremony on the White House lawn. The imagery was intentional: a President welcoming U.S. troops back from exemplary military intervention abroad. While the occasion was to honor their service in Somalia, its real object was to make Clinton look more like a Commander in Chief as he contemplates a much tougher operation in Bosnia. "Your successful return reminds us that other missions lie ahead for our nation," he said. "You have proved that American leadership can help...
...powerful role a First Lady has ever assumed, all the practical considerations of daily living have been removed -- whether she wants them to be or not. As she sits in the Library on the first floor of the residence after holding a reception for community volunteers on the South Lawn, a butler brings her iced tea on a silver tray, and with him the unmistakable formality of this old house with 132 rooms. She finally eats lunch that day at 3:30, looking almost too exhausted to chew, and admits it's been a "pretty stressful three months...
...each other for a few hours, and in the shadows behind the door of the diplomatic entrance, he touched the side of her face and took her hand before they came out to say goodbye to the 500 members of the health-care task force gathered on the South Lawn. He thanked them, and then turned and said, "I'm indebted once again to my wonderful wife." It's a line uttered by politicians since the Republic was formed, but he may just mean...