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...would also like to mention rocker, marksman and conservative activist Ted Nugent, who, in his autobiography "God, Guns and Rock 'n' Roll" refers to himself as "Rosa Parks with a loud guitar." That's so inaccurate; everyone knows he's more like Mary Matalin with a fancy deer rifle...
...mention the half a dozen bathrooms shared by 15 guest rooms? "That wasn't our first plan," says Herrick, "but that's all we could afford...
...slow," a former classmate said at the Oklahoma City home of Allen's mother. Mary Allen herself is marginally articulate. She sat barefoot in her parlor, crying at the mention of Wanda while a roach tiptoed over a grandchild's sneaker. A relative with Tourette's syndrome--one of several kin with disabilities--called, and the speaker phone broadcast a tirade in which he threatened a member of the defense team. "It's hard to believe," Presson said, "but Wanda Jean is the brain trust of that family...
...Alex ("A-Rod") Rodriguez's $252 million deal [SPORT, Dec. 25-Jan. 1]: There have always been players whose salaries seemed to break the bank, and there will continue to be inequities in Major League Baseball's competitive balance. You neglected to mention how some teams are able to afford such players. Here in Boston, it's hard to be a Red Sox fan when the team has just signed Manny Ramirez for $160 million while trying to hit up Massachusetts taxpayers for $312 million to replace beloved Fenway Park...
Employees who are out of the workplace for extended periods of time often are worried about job tenure, not to mention making ends meet. One practice that is proving to be a dramatic stress reducer for chronically ill employees is the "sick bank," where healthy employees can donate sick days to a colleague. Second-grade teacher Raquel Allen, 47, of Imperial Beach, Calif., is currently recovering from a double mastectomy. Even though her job with the school district entitles her to only 13 sick days a year, so far she has received 72 anonymously donated days that have allowed...