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...designer, I'm also supposed to help shape the lifestyle of the kids, and I didn't like a lot of what I was doing in that regard." So she began subtly trying to guide her clients away from certain amenities, advising some parents to scale back on the queen-size beds for seven-year-old girls or the themed bathrooms that rivaled the Small World ride at Disney World...
DIED. PHOOLAN DEVI, 38, India's rebellious "Bandit Queen," a vigilante turned lawmaker revered by the poor as a defender of the lower castes; when three masked men gunned her down as she stepped out of her car; in New Delhi. Devi's gun-slinging, horseback-riding Robin Hood antics drew many ardent fans and equally ardent foes. In 1996 the former voted her into Parliament...
...Atlantic subsidiary, with little impact. Herb Abramson, head of Atco, wanted to drop him, but Ertegun overruled the decision. Ahmet and ace engineer Tom Dowd supervised the kid?s next session, using their new Ampex eight-track recording system; out of this came two 1958 hits, "Splish Splash" and "Queen of the Hop." The first song, which Darin had written in 12 minutes, begins with water-bubble sounds, cueing its novelty nature; but it had drive and its narrator?s tough-guy befuddlement at finding "a party going on" outside his bathroom. "Queen of the Hop," with Darin?s tentative...
...Davidson can borrow the pod and still get back home to wifey in time for dinner with the Feldmans. And the fact that home isn?t what he remembered is the kind of out-of-left-field "surprise" ending that gets mystery writers beat up at Ellery Queen conventions...
There are a few exceptions. John McCain has a story. But even McCain's record of war and imprisonment pales beside the story of Phoolan Devi - India's Bandit Queen and Member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh, assassinated the other day outside her home in New Delhi...