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...It’s definitely not going to be overrun by kids,” Stannard-Friel said. “Compared to the undergrads, it’ll just be a small fraction of the event...
...first used Hayward last October, they were ambivalent about hiring someone to cook for them. Would it be worth the expense? (Hayward charges $225, on top of the grocery bill, for about 15 family meals.) How tasty would the food be? Would friends in their neighborhood--affluent but hardly overrun by servants--view the Bachas with disdain? "It sounded pretentious," says Sarah. But she seldom has time to indulge her own passion for cooking, and Hayward's services give her more time with her family. "We're not rushing around every night to pull something together...
...Still, should a $1200 chopper ride and a little babysitting cause more of a flap than the $15 billion cost overrun for the Big Dig which occurred under the watch of her two male predecessors? Welcome to the Big Time, where the personal failure usually gets bigger headlines than an ongoing public one, as former President Clinton could have told her. She made certain the personal would be the political by setting a world record for long commutes, choosing to live in Williamstown, Massachusetts, nearly three hours from the capitol. Perhaps Massachusetts should provide housing. Yes, Boston real estate...
...superintendents at all the Houses said they were overrun with students coming to pick up flowers and other parcels...
...oppression.) But now, as the three warlords who control Jalalabad remain inside their walled compounds, residents on the dusty streets outside fear their city will slip into medieval disorder. Relief grain sent by the World Food Program sits in warehouses, as deliveries remain too dangerous to complete. Bandits have overrun the most important road in Afghanistan, from Jalalabad to Kabul, rendering it impassable to anyone without an armed escort (four journalists traveling along it were executed on Nov. 26). Blood feuds that smoldered during the Taliban years have rekindled into nighttime firefights. Asked about these problems, the city...