Word: rat
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There are remnants of family left: a sister living in England, a stepmother who gave my dad waves of happiness in his final years. The bonds feel closer now, and we all laughed hysterically poring through his massive, pack-rat's collection of videotapes. (Tarzan's New York Adventure? Drums of Fu Manchu? Dad, please!) But walking through the house is no longer nostalgic. There's an aching feeling that my folks should be in the next room, or pulling up in the driveway. Nothing seems quite right...
...Clark. I'm on the town council, and I'm running for state legislature." Then Clark locks eyes with his quarry. "I'm running as a Maine Clean Election candidate. I'm not asking for money; I'm asking for your vote." That makes Clark, in effect, a lab rat in a national experiment. He's one of 116 legislative candidates in Maine running with funds given under the state's Clean Elections Act. Passed by voters four years ago, it offers full public financing to state office seekers who eschew the smarmy scramble for campaign funds. Several states have...
...Scratch a collector, and you find a pack rat who likes to play librarian. As a teenager Elton bought rock records extravagantly, then organized them with Prussian efficiency, filing them by record label and catalog number. With early stardom he loaded up on the usual blunder acquisitions of new-money collectors. (What was it exactly that baby boomers saw in Art Nouveau posters and Tiffany lamps?) Most of that he sold off some years ago in the mental and physical housecleaning that accompanied his decision to stop drinking. Then he went to lunch in France, somebody showed him some prints...
...since the election, and turmoil on the streets has shown no sign of abating. Following Gueï's hasty departure Wednesday, Gbagbo proclaimed himself president and the same military that had installed Gueï in power rushed to endorse him. But many Ivoirians, and the international community, smell a rat...
According to Frank, we're just joining the rat race earlier in some kind of sick competition. Each time the media (journalism, by the way, is notoriously low-paying) makes much of the latest millionaire success story, the bar is raised that much higher on how much each senior needs to make after graduation to be considered successful. While it used to be enough to just have a steady job, now $50,000 a year is standard. The prize: a venture capital firm, which could pull in up to $150,000. Of course, those firms only hire three people...