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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real bottom line is that with a flexible schedule and willingness to research, you can find a vacation that meets your expectations and budget. To paraphrase Little Orphan Annie, "Tomorrow is only a day away." So too are the savings and opportunities that come with a little patience...
...aspiring politician: dinner with TIME. Looking out across a table laden with the best postwar cuisine available--three platters of chicken franks, canned tuna and tomatoes--the 30-year-old rebel answers questions with a voice at once shy and calculating. Trying his best to toe the Western line, he assures us repeatedly, "We will live up to the obligations given to us." But as dinner stretches to midnight, Thaci begins to flag. Perhaps it is the endless days of negotiations with the U.S. or the months of war or just the barrage of journalists' questions about how exactly...
...funny or popular. But kids in the 12- to 14 group have different criteria: clothes come first, then "being popular" and third, good looks. "This is a little bit sad," observes Wolf, "but it also shows parents what they're up against if they're trying to draw the line on certain clothes." The emphasis on having the right stuff to wear may also help explain why low-income kids in the poll worry the most about fitting...
...fourth draft of a note to the plumber about replacing an old cast-iron wastewater line with polyvinyl-chloride pipe. After a fairly straightforward preamble, it veers off into a six-page symbolist idyll about a lake and a passenger-less rowboat "drifting away in errant eddies like a strange and mute child." It's really quite beautiful...
Part of the problem stems from Hemingway's apparent uncertainty about where he wanted his story to go. Early on, some Mau Mau rebels who have escaped from jail pose a potential threat to the Hemingway encampment, but they abruptly vanish from the narrative. Another plot line involves Hemingway's fourth wife, Mary, and her fierce determination to shoot a particular lion before Christmas Day. "He's my lion," she says, sounding uncomfortably like a contestant in a Bad Hemingway writing contest, "and I love him and respect him and I have to kill him." She does so about halfway...