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...guardians of 60 to 70 kids have joined the PTA. "Some of the children arrive at school not knowing their full name; they just know their nickname," says principal Ruby Greer, who has managed to improve test scores and attendance. "They don't know how to hold a pencil or a book. And it seems like you never catch...
...obvious culprit is the nature of the record keeping itself. Half of the Currier records would not be admissible in court, simply because some of the pencil-and-paper accounting fails to indicate where money had been paid. The choice to embezzle is always a crime, but crimes are easy to commit when there is little chance of detection...
...powerful speaker of the California assembly, Brown had agonized over which of three designer suits to wear to his swearing in. He finally decided to have Polaroids taken to see which suit would photograph better. The winner: a $2,600 single-breasted charcoal-gray Brioni with a brown pencil stripe. Haberdasher Wilkes Bashford, a longtime Brown outfitter, provided the final, Caesarean touch at a preinauguration party: a wreath of laurel. "I take my job pretty seriously," said Bashford, "and I missed one accessory." The ebullient Brown...
...voting, he raised a similar problem. Was the campus literate enough for on-line voting? How could we persuade the students, and especially the administration, that this was not only an interesting and innovative project, but that it was actually a significant improvement over the old system of dependable pencil and paper...
...know of these women who put lipstick on before talking to a man on the phone. She tells us of her editor-in-chief, "the morning after her red-faced, old New York husband's sudden death, she came to the office and sat at her desk, a red pencil in hand. Nobody interrupted her; we knew she was holding a wake in what was more surely her home than the big apartment on upper Fifth Avenue in which, we still believed, her house keeper ironed her stockings every morning...