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...wonder the government seldom hands out a pink slip. The federal personnel manual, which spells out the rules for hiring and firing, totals 10,000 pages. There are 900 pages alone on how to fill in Standard Form 50 ("Notification of Personnel Action"). Government personnel director Jim King wants to replace the manual with slimmed-down regulations tailored to specific agencies...
...Slater felt called upon to ask for applause for Madonna, whose cross-gender opening number, straight out of Berlin 1929, set a mix-and-match postmodern tone for the performances. Lenny Kravitz and Soul Asylum did their respective versions of the early '70s. Sharon Stone, perfectly pretty in her pink '50s prom dress, was Barbie, live. (In postshow remarks, she volunteered an answer to the question everybody wants to ask Sharon Stone: "Did you fish and hunt with your dad growing up in Pennsylvania?" She did.) U2's the Edge, with a channel-surfing video wall and Deep Space Nine...
...preparing to move to a new job with the National College Republicans. In between, he got himself fired from the Red and Black for plagiarism. At the College Republicans' national convention, Reed helped defeat a moderate by targeting his preppy garb; Reed gave out hundreds of buttons showing a pink tie with a red line through it. Rebecca Hagelin, a protege then and still a friend, says Reed was considered "the best practitioner of kiddie politics" but was so "addicted to the excitement" that he frequently strayed across ethical boundaries...
...Siamese twins, joined breast to belly, with a fused liver and a shared heart. As they cuddled the girls, Reitha, 24, and Ken, 26, knew that they would not see Amy, "the ornery one," alive again. Her fingernails had been left bare while her sister's had been painted pink by nurses to help doctors easily distinguish the girls. For surgeons would soon try to save Angela by sacrificing Amy. Even Angela had only the slimmest chance -- less than 1% -- to survive for more than a few weeks. Still, as Ken had plaintively asked one doctor, "people win the lottery...
...said a paint job is in the works. "We will paint the front, but we're not sure what color--even though the customers tell us to keep it pink," she said