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...entering class. "When I walk into the room in a toga," he explains, "I've got everyone's attention." He holds it with a Latin version of What's My Line?, spelling bees and a puppet show starring a mouse named Equus Eddie. In Fairfax, Va., Maureen O'Donnell awards daily bonus points to high school students who can pick out pop items like Top 40 song titles scribbled in Latin on the blackboard...
...particularly galling was that there was a certain amount of truth in the gibe. As film making in Southern California has become more expensive and more difficult, other states have moved aggressively to capture a business traditionally synonymous with Hollywood. "We're losing the feature-film business," declares Maureen Kindel, president of the Los Angeles City Board of Public Works. "It's as simple as that. It's a lucrative, non-polluting and glamorous industry, and other states are making a tremendous drive to take it away from...
...small gathering at the Western White House in Santa Barbara included three of the President's children, Ron, Maureen and Patti, and his brother Neil Reagan. But as the Reagans celebrated with a traditional Thanksgiving meal last week, Michael Reagan, 39, was reacting to some remarks made to a syndicated columnist by his stepmother Nancy, who said that there has been "an estrangement" between Michael and his father for the past three years. In Omaha, where he was celebrating Thanksgiving with his in-laws, Michael denied any estrangement. Noting that he and his wife "have the only two grandchildren...
Moreover, women with political ambitions may not have to worry so much about seeming presumptuous; the uppitiness factor should fade. Maureen O'Connor has served on the San Diego City Council and as Deputy Mayor, Chairwoman of the Local Transit Board and Vice Chairwoman of a California State Housing Finance Agency. She ran for mayor of San Diego last year and lost. "Despite the fact that I was twice as qualified as my opponent," she says, "there were reservations voiced about the capacity of a woman to manage a city of this size effectively. Well, with a woman...
...Maureen Reagan, 43, G.O.P. consultant, on why she is critical of her father's tendency to refer to all women as "ladies": "Women is something we are, lady is something we earn...