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...tepid, the audience somber. When Laura Bush addressed UNESCO, the U.N.'s scientific and cultural offshoot, in Paris last week, the response was heady, enthusiastic. Sure, that's partly because she's a coiffed First Lady and not a controversial President--but the glowing response was also because Mrs. Bush spoke in the gentle, feminist language penned by consigliere Karen Hughes that U.N. types favor. At times she even sounded a bit like Hillary Clinton, saying that "learning empowers women to ask questions, to understand their rights and to make their own decisions," and citing the moving example...
...time when the President's poll numbers are sinking and the West Wing is fending off questions about whether it had a role in exposing a spy, Mrs. Bush had a week of mending fences with the world and being cheered by schoolchildren. Not bad for a woman who less than nine years ago was a stay-at-home mom married to a businessman. Now she's a globe-trotting goodwill ambassador...
...also a goodwill ambassador to the press. In contrast to the President, who rarely visits with reporters, Mrs. Bush was chatty, constantly available, eager to see that the journalists who followed her were comfortable. "Did you all get some good French food?" she asked us at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Paris. She even had her staff push the Russian authorities to let us join her for the Bolshoi ballet--a pleasant surprise for journalists used to being kept far from the President or deprived of such galas because of his 9 p.m. bedtime...
...women’s action, Jennie Philbrick and sophomore Sloan Devlin skippered the Crimson to a third-place finish among 18 squads at Dartmouth College’s Mrs. Hurst Bowl...
...textile mill that burned down long ago. The lead characters include Dr. Hook, played by long-lost Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy, a "brilliant" surgeon who isn't so brilliant that he can find a home outside the hospital basement or a hobby outside of collecting scalpels. Diane Ladd is Mrs. Druse, a "psychic hypochondriac." Bruce Davison plays Dr. Stegman, a hopelessly incompetent yet arrogant doctor. Naturally, the spirits of the child workers who died in the fire lurk in the corridors; naturally, the living characters foolishly ignore them...