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...human face on a damning study by the General Accounting Office that will be the subject of hearings by the Committee on Aging this week. The panel has summoned two insiders--a former California nursing-home nurse and a current nursing-home inspector for the state--to offer firsthand accounts of the horrors. The women--called "Clara B." and "Florence N." by the committee--will speak from behind a screen to shield them from retaliation by the powerful nursing-home industry and the agency that provides care to California's elderly...
...choose a great monastery or convent. While organized church retreats are not new, what is startling is that much of the increase is in individual retreatants, including many Protestants and even non-Christians, who say the Catholic monasteries, with their ancient chants, beautiful grounds and prices at a pittance, offer the most refreshing vacation going. Now, say the monks, if only they could keep the growing horde down to the true spiritual seekers, not just vacationers at Club...
...entirely new one. The earliest monasteries were founded in the 4th century in the Egyptian desert. As Christianity became legalized and then haute, the Desert Fathers and Mothers found themselves overrun by hipsters from Alexandria and Rome. Father Robert of New Camaldoli, where the spare rooms offer a heart-stopping view of the Pacific--for $30 a night--can relate. A hard call? "Sometimes," he sighs, "the first question is about the pool or the tennis courts...
...million," while Robert Gottlieb of the William Morris Agency puts the number in the low six figures. Larry Kirshbaum of Time Warner Trade Publishing is closefisted, saying, "I think we're all bimboed out." The supermarket tabloids are similarly split. The Star's Phil Bunton has a standing offer of $1 million to hear Lewinsky's story, while the Globe's Tony Frost has "scant interest." Meanwhile, right-wing publisher Regnery next week becomes the first with a pro-impeachment book, this one by commentator Ann Coulter...
...Thus did Lockheed offer to pay $15 million per missile if three out of their next five tests, starting in November or December, end ignominiously. A spokesman said the five failures had forced Lockheed to "apply additional resources in the area of quality." And this is a firm with plenty of resources to play with. As Thompson out, "$75 million isn't a lot of money to Lockheed" -- especially not with the approximately $3.2 billion the company has already received for THAAD from the government. No prizes for guessing who gets stuck with the bill...