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...walking along the sidewalk next to the 8-foot-high fence that separates the South Lawn from tourists and placard wavers seemed suspicious. When the Secret Service officers approached him, he allegedly reached into his coat and turned on them with a loaded 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun. One agent quickly drew his service revolver and fired, wounding the would-be gunman in the right...
...other duties included caring for the lawn, especially the mother's Japanese garden parts of which had been imported Before their departure, the family had rigorously instructed me on how to care for the yard, watering every night, mowing every week, and weeding whenever I saw weeds. During the month they they were away, the grass turned from a lush green to a dried brown, the weeds grew as big as the plants, and the Japanese garden looked like the bottom of a fishtank...
...does the majority's implication that surrounding the creche with other, strictly secular, symbols negates the endorsement ring true. It's like saying if the city put a cross on the lawn of its City Hall and surrounded it with candy canes, reindeer and polar bears, the cross would no longer signify any real religious endorsement. What if the symbol had been a Star of David or a Koran...
Dapper and perhaps bemused, the guest of honor stood quietly through the welcoming din. Before him on the White House lawn, a fife-and-drum corps stepped loudly and flawlessly through its paces. In the distance, a knot of pro-Taiwanese demonstrators chanted protests against his presence. Thus in noisy, if peculiarly democratic fashion did the U.S. capital greet Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. Zhao, the highest-ranking Peking official ever to visit the U.S.,* had come to shore up a wobbly relationship. Said Zhao at the White House ceremony: "I come as a friendly envoy of the Chinese people...
...never has to mow a lawn or unclog a toilet...