Word: patricks
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...cities are watching Seattle with interest, most are content to rely on existing laws rather than introduce new ones. Faced with well over 350,000 homeless wandering the streets in search of food and shelter, cities cannot hope to get rid of beggars. The problem isn't panhandling, says Patrick Murphy, director of the police policy board of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and former New York City police commissioner. "It's an entire social structure. Without proper housing, there is little hope for a solution...
...very first page of this very long novel about Ireland contains a reference to an unspecified night in June 1904, when "Patrick Prentiss came for the first time to Kilpeder and booked a room at the Arms." The time may be of little consequence to most readers, but some will not be able to ignore that, by coincidence or design, the author begins his plunge into Irish history with a suggestion of the most famous date in modern literature. That would be Bloomsday (June 16, 1904), the day of James Joyce's Ulysses...
...nude models supposedly personify the national virtues of liberty, equality and fraternity, and they figure in a complicated advertising campaign for the Socialist Party as it prepares for next year's presidential race against the Conservatives. But the billboards have merely left most passersby befuddled. Gloated Patrick Devedgian, national secretary of Conservative Premier Jacques Chirac's party: "In the provinces that sort of thing leaves them cold...
Another domestic mammal has the lead in Michael Patrick Hearn's The Porcelain Cat (Little, Brown; $12.95). A medieval sorcerer wants to bring a feline statue to life. For that he needs an ingredient not sold in stores: basilisk blood. Out goes his assistant, a boy destined to encounter a witch and a centaur before he brings about the ironic ending. Hearn has obviously been spending time with the Greek myths, but his narrative is modernized with paintings by Leo and Diane Dillon, who know a few enchantments of their...
...They tried to avoid calamity. It sounds like they did a good job at it," said Michael Patrick '65, manager of the University of Texas's endowment, the nation's second largest endowment after Harvard...