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...Plumber Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes recalled the long tradition of these warnings—and “25 years of institutional restraints”—saying that the goals of expansion and fiscal tightening were hard to reconcile...
...contentious issue of rent control also weighed on some residents, like John Carbone, a plumber by trade who was laying brick for his own driveway...
...record deal and chart success in the U.K. and U.S., where Bedingfield's the only Briton to have scored two Top 20 singles in the past year (take that, Robbie Williams). The musical superlatives mask a major part of Bedingfield's nonmusical appeal: his averageness. He looks like a plumber, not a pinup. He laughs (often too) loudly. He talks openly about his struggles, such as attention deficit disorder and his occasional need for others to jolt him out of self-absorption. He's a romantic who seeks "the one" woman. And he feels no need to hide...
...franchise. "He's a demon who was raised to become a fighter for a secret branch of the Federal Government that investigates paranormal happenings," says director Guillermo (Don't Call Me Benicio) del Toro. "He has a very blue-collar attitude about his job. He's more like a plumber than a superhero." Selma Blair plays a girl with pyrokinetic powers. And on his right, there's a psychic merman. Don't worry. You have until next Memorial Day to figure...
...contribution is acknowledged with an excerpt, along with a chapter from Frances Maye's Under the Tuscan Sun and many other tales of yuppies "slumming it" in old, country homes. While the storytelling is evocative, the collection's focus on writers complaining about the impossibility of finding a decent plumber in their quaint hamlet starts to grate. TIME Asia's editor Karl Taro Greenfeld offers an antidote with his claustrophobic account of a college semester spent in a Parisian loft, gambling his monthly allowance on games of Nerf basketball with a trio of dissolute Americans and an Argentine kleptomaniac. Scoured...