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...Currier bookshelf, beside Tocqueville's "Democracy in America," that Government concentrator Paul S. Gutman '00 keeps "Alonzo Purr," a book about a ferryboat captain's cat. No, the sophomore government tutorial did not recently expand its reading list: like many of his peers, Gutman remains attached to a memorable book from his childhood...
...first encounter Gutman, a Crimson editor, remembers having with "Alonzo Purr" was when his parents bought it three years ago. Gutman says that at the time his parents were upset that he could not recall the numerous times they read the library book to him as a child. An effort to revive those memories of family reading sessions later drove them to purchase the book in an antique bookstore...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The nation's at peace. The economy continues to purr like a well-oiled machine. What's left to do for a president who wants to make his mark on history? If Bill Clinton's fall agenda outlined Tuesday is any indication, tinkering at the margins is quite enough. "We are going to see some more little initiatives, like extending the school day and day care standards," says TIME White House correspondent Jef McAllister of the President's autumn to-do list. McAllister notes Clinton learned his biggest lesson from failed health care reform, which taught...
...become an object of derision, a chubby, drawling, waffling figure of fun. He had already set in place the single policy most responsible for his ultimate re-election--the deficit-reduction measures that gained the infant Administration credibility with the financial markets, which in turn helped the economy purr along. But his attempt to reform the nation's health-care system had split the country and overshadowed everything else, allowing the G.O.P. to portray him successfully as classically liberal and thereby capture Congress...
...girl that mistakes a glue stick for her lipstick." The lighthearted tone of the latter song creates a playful atmosphere among the band members and shows that Eve's Plum knows how to have fun. Incorporating the lyric "All I want to do is lick my lips and purr" into a catchy song like "Lipstuck" makes Eve's Plum is even more irresistible...