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...Bill, then the only son, hid from others the disgrace of his father's drunken behavior. The mother and son moved into a new house then, and Bill remembers having to get a neighbor, Jim Clark, to show him how to use a posthole digger for putting up the mailbox. But the girl next door, a minister's daughter who became his close friend in school, never knew about the furies raging inside the Clinton home. No one knew -- not Clinton's high school counselor, not his pastor, not his closest friends...
...Lost Farm" is painted on the mailbox at Will Hapgood's place in Bolton, Mass. and if you aren't trying to reach his property you may well be lost. The road is not a main thoroughfare in town. When we parked and walked towards the house, a short, wizard-like figure dressed in blue jeans, hiking boots and a T-shirt hailed us from where he was working in the garage. "Y'all come in your Volkswagens?" he shouted. That was Will...
...should wait by the mailbox. But American industries and individuals do stand to gain materially from a successful Uruguay Round. The pact, as it stands, contemplates a one-third drop in average tariffs and safeguards against hidden export subsidies. It would also provide a stronger forum for settling trade disputes amicably than unilateral reprisals, such as the $1 billion in new tariffs on European goods that the U.S. threatened last week in retaliation for E.C. subsidies on oilseeds like soybeans...
...Curtis Boyd's Dallas clinic came under siege for weeks by antiabortion demonstrators. One day one of the protesters began asking after Boyd's children by name. "How's Kyle?" the man would inquire. "Has he had any accidents?" Then came the handwritten death threat in his mailbox. Boyd moved his family out of town for a while, and on Christmas Eve his clinic was torched. Boyd is back in business today, but with a sharper sense of the odds against him. "You have a President of the United States who says abortion should be illegal," he says. "You have...
...post office, bought a roll of stamps each and then we went to Bob Slate to pick up some double-bond, acid-free ivory electronic cream Watermark paper. You have to spend money to make money, right? When we mailed our letters, we said a prayer over the mailbox (if the shema could get Moses out of the desert, it should be able to get us out of Boston for the summer) and we waited...