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Assuming the disappearance of cash, this ultra-paternalistic plan could rid urban areas of some considerable ills. Those who object to the plan's paternalism probably wouldn't have much lunch with a "Brother, can you spare a gambling coupon" program, but then again-as the adage puts it-beggars can't be choosers...
...year-old Verona bank clerk tries to be the picture of decorum. There was a weekend this month, however, when he went just a bit crazy. Two Saturdays ago, he stood halfway up a Swiss ski slope yelling himself hoarse with cries of ``Forza, Alberto!'' As the object of his cheers cannonaded down the run, Corruzo dashed to the finish line and jumped the fence. Too late. His hero, rushed by a mob of other brandy-fueled fanatics, ran for protection. Was a blurred whoosh-past by Alberto Tomba worth the $500 trip? Assolutamente! ``He doesn't slow down even...
There are other reasons to object to the change, Wheat argues. She claims that renaming the North House Mail Center the Pforzheimer House Mail Center will cause postal problems. "Our mail will be screwed up for the longest time," Wheat says...
Power cords can also be covered in tin foil and grounded to a metal object...
These are the antagonists in the love match that Brookner sets up. George watches unblinkingly as his standards go down the drain. He also looks without flinching at the object of his fixation. She has ``an unusual gift: she brought everyone to the brink of bad behaviour.'' An honest man and proud of it, he is appalled to hear himself telling her petty lies, mostly in an effort to keep her greed at bay. Meanwhile, she is a determined missionary as she rattles on about getting in touch with ``the essential self.'' Confronted with one of his respectable female friends...