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Michael, from Wisconsin, who is about 40, has a subsistence job taking care of animals in a pet store. He guesses that 5% to 10% of the Rainbows are street people or rural itinerants. Some are "Dumpster divers," who scrounge for food behind restaurants and supermarkets. A larger number live middle- class lives, often with jobs in the social services. And the majority are people in their 20s who work but feel estranged from house-and-mortgage society...
...gave Leno his first sustained TV exposure, was furious at not being offered the job. One source told the Washington Post that Letterman planned to sue NBC to break his contract, making him available for offers from CBS and ABC. Once upon a time, the ringmaster of Stupid Pet Tricks was indeed Carson's heir apparent, Bonnie Prince Dave. But now Leno will assume command over the United Kingdom of Late Night. Letterman gets to keep Wales...
Rudenstine's pet project, the appointment of a provost, has met with support from Ed School administrators and scholars, who say the creation of a University-wide official for academic issues will benefit their school...
...purse is Congress's most effective weapon, and the House last week wielded it like a double-bladed sword. Although the House approved George Bush's request for $291 billion in total military spending next year, its version of the 1992 defense-spending bill axed the President's pet B-2 Stealth bomber program and drastically cut funding for his Strategic Defense Initiative antiballistic-missile project...
...sing the praises of their town to "Bill, Bill, Bill and Mike," four strangers identified only as "top level" executives of a "really big company" in another city. The meeting went well. Ten months after Bill, Bill, Bill and Mike took a look around, H.J. Heinz moved its Pet Products subsidiary from Long Beach, Calif., to Cincinnati...