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Sure, your parents went to Yale Law School. But your mom went to school around here, and didn't you enjoy the neon-ringed, newly-established Loker Commons when you visited? Not to mention the bean burritos...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: WAITING FOR CHELSEA | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

...Vivaldi humorously depicts such antics as poor folks falling on their derrieres after sliding over the ice with the sweeping phrasing of the baroque guitar. Then, he clemently rushes us all home with a competently executed Largo, to the family values warmth of fireside, cocoa with mini marshmallows and mom. The first and second violins joined with the fat, dull twang of the bass in an extended pizzicato, successfully evoking a grandfather clock slowly prodding through a bitter time of year...

Author: By Elisabetta A. Coletti, | Title: Flautist's Fusion Redux of "Seasons" A Success | 10/17/1996 | See Source »

...nervous mother spent the summer checking off all 174, actually, make that 173 items on The List: Mom let me unpack the athletic supporter after we received the third edition of The List, which made distinctions between male and female items. Only on the day of my departure, when we made a mad dash to CVS for anti-fungal powder, did she sit back, relax a little and begin to let her daughter...

Author: By Sarah D. Kalloch, | Title: I Knew I Forgot Something | 10/16/1996 | See Source »

...story of this election by telling the story of her life. Lori Lucas lives in Shrewsbury, Missouri, an undecided voter in a bellwether town in the ultimate swing state. She is not just an archetype; she's a revelation, a spirited wreck of political contradiction. She's an unmarried mom who thinks the country is on the wrong track because the family unit has broken down. She drives a gas-guzzling station wagon because it's safe but worries so much about the environment that she collects cans at work to recycle at home and uses the same plastic-foam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DESPERATELY SEEKING LORI | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

...Lori's mom Doris echoes what Dole tells women: they should work only if they want to, a 1950s notion that defies the economy of the 1990s. "If I had my choice, both of my daughters would stay home," says Doris. She reared her five children while her husband Ed worked for 27 years at Sears. But she realizes Lori has little choice, so she thought about what matters to her most, and then made a decision about her own life that makes all the difference in Lori...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DESPERATELY SEEKING LORI | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

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