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...Give me the damn encyclopedia!'' I shout. Hearing the dread word, my nephews erupt from the rug and flee...
...that the Administration is also prepping a backup choice just in case. ``No one believes the White House will stick by Foster,'' says an aide to a liberal Senate Democrat. ``Even if they stand by him today, nobody up here has the faith that they won't pull the rug out from under him tomorrow.'' And if the past is any guide, the good doctor may be the last to know...
...surprisingly conciliatory opening address, several vanquished Democratic committee chairmen -- among them former Foreign Affairs chairman Lee Hamilton of Indiana -- paced the back aisles, pale ghosts of caucuses past. One chose to look at the bright side. As chairman, he said, "you're dealing with a bunch of little rug rats whining about what they want and what they didn't get." Ceding power is "like getting out of the day-care business. All of a sudden, it looks like a good deal." So is Newt Gingrich nanny to the nation? He will certainly get to conciliate and cajole, to deal...
...century Slovak tinkers to the factory-made implements of the early 20th century. Many of these varied and whimsical shapes, collected and attractively arranged by the editors, were last seen in Grandma's house. Singled out or clustered in more than 300 photos, these whisks, racks, beaters (egg and rug), cages, baskets, candelabrums and hand-held toasters are reminders of a stable domestic world now bent out of shape...
Tell that to Rachel, 19, an Irish au pair who felt like a slave while working for a family in Manhattan. Rachel found herself cleaning out the refrigerator, washing Venetian blinds, even scrubbing old stains from the living room rug. Those specialty services were layered on top of her daily responsibilities: minding the family's three children, washing the dishes, vacuuming. Moreover, Rachel says because there was never enough to eat in the house, she shelled out about $35 each week to keep herself and the children adequately fed. Rachel hung on eight months, then bolted. "I finally realized...