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Bill Clinton in those days slept on a mattress on the floor of his bedroom at 46 Leckford Road in North Oxford, England. He ate bad Indian and Chinese food -- curry, dim sum -- from restaurants on the corner...
Then Sweeney called the social-services department and explained that she was not well enough to care for her grandsons herself, but she wanted the brothers kept together. Instead the boys were placed in separate foster homes. Tommy, the younger, slept on a urine-stained mattress without a sheet. "He cried pitifully," Sweeney recalls. "He wouldn't eat or play. He sat with a shopping bag under his arm." The youngster was returned to his grandmother's house, but soon his mother, who temporarily cleaned herself up with the help of a detox program, regained custody of the boys...
...notice that his own 16-month tenure, as well as those of GM president Lloyd Ruess and chief financial officer Robert O'Connell, are under close scrutiny. Says a board source: "They are down to a real cash-flow problem now. All the money is out of the mattress...
...always been the still point of a turning life. From the plush regal litter of the empress Josephine to the spartan mattress of the painter Francesco Clemente to the author's own seductive boudoir, the beds depicted in this dreamy book are not simply places to sleep but shrines to art, imagination and fantasy...
...powerful feeling of tranquility that comes from knowing how one's house is put together," Owen writes. "My childhood would have been somewhat less anxiety-ridden had I realized...there was no way for pirates to crawl... from the laundry chute to... my bed and stab me through my mattress...