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Though he endorsed the idea of blitzing the country in the last week of the campaign, Bush retained his well-known distaste for spending nights away from his White House pillow. "Bush gets pretty grumpy out there, and Karl absorbs the brunt of it," says an aide to the President. Five days before the election, as Air Force One flew from South Dakota to Indiana, Rove was tugging at the President to make an extra stop in Iowa to help candidates there. Bush was having none of it. "You better have a parachute, Karl," Bush quipped, "because when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2002: W. and the Boy Genius | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...just the latest human behavior that will pass from normal, to problematic to disease. One day, when sleep becomes a treatable condition like cavities in your teeth or ear infections, Provigil may be heralded as a forerunner of wonder-drugs that free us from the tyranny of the pillow...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: One Pill, Two Days, No Sleep | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

...believer. My belief is there, though it surfaces rarely and in strange forms. When I was younger, my mom would frequently go on business trips. Every time, after we’d dropped her at the airport, I would lie in my bed and pray into my pillow that her plane wouldn’t crash. I didn’t know how to pray, so all I did was whisper to God over and over to please protect my mommy. Lately, religion has regained a tiny bit of its appeal. A part of me still wants to believe...

Author: By Mollie H. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jesus, Etc. | 10/31/2002 | See Source »

...world of children’s books. She worked briefly in a law firm, got her MBA and wrote her first book: Working Women for the 21st Century: Fifty Women Reveal Their Pathways to Success, which featured Evert. LaTeef then established a women’s textile company called Pillow Talk, which made linens and pillowcases for cultural institutions. She sold it after seven years, and became the director of development of the Foreign Policy Association, a non-profit that seeks to educate the public about foreign policy...

Author: By Margot E. Kaminski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cronkite and the Ebony Tree | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...give feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon a heart attack. Why else open the pilot with Lynne rehearsing opening arguments in the middle of the night in her skimpy jammies? Or run opening credits while the friends jog, put on makeup, do the stationary bike--everything but have a pillow fight? Reese Witherspoon was more credible in Legally Blonde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Ally-Come-Latelies | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

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