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...take so long? Whose interests are Republicans and renegade Democrats supporting when they oppose it? The answer seems clear: their own. If the NRA lined your pocket with much-needed campaign funds in a depressed economy before an election year, you too might echo John Breaux. Before it was clear that the filibuster would be broken, the senator from Louisiana said, "I'm going to do some polling back in Louisiana over the recess...
...recount the ending -- or rather, endings. After throwing a bar mitzvah way beyond the budget of his blue-collar Brooklyn family, the father (Peter Friedman of TV's Brooklyn Bridge) storms out in rage at being unappreciated, his son's wad of cash gifts stuck precariously in his back pocket. He returns hours later, explaining that he has been watching the "dumb" movie Born Free. In one variation, his bored wife (two-time Tony Award winner Christine Baranski) chucks him out. In another, she commits suicide by leaping off the tacky flat's tiny balcony. In a third, their children...
...oppressor was Charles Hardy, president of the company. He would ask Harris and other female employees to retrieve coins from his front pants pocket. He once suggested that Harris accompany him to the local Holiday Inn to negotiate her raise. He also regularly responded to her with remarks like "You're a woman; what do you know?" and called her "a dumb-ass woman." Said Harris: "It got to the point that I didn't have any choice but to confront him. I had had enough." When he failed to change, she quit. "I felt so hopeless," she said...
Jennifer Berman; Pocket Books...
TUCKED IN AN OBSCURE POCKET OF MASS AVENUE, Your Hair Salon could easily be overlooked by Your Average Pedestrian. But behind its unassuming facade lurks Not Your Everyday Coiffure Shop...