Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sam is in his high chair, eating whatever pasta he is not wearing. Sam's dad Mike, 30, is out shopping for tomorrow night's dinner. He and Lori had been dating for three years before he moved in, when Lori got pregnant. When the baby was born last September, they named him after Sam Malone, Mike's favorite character on Cheers. Lori's heart hasn't been the same since. Neither has her life. "I used to be a list maker," she says, and then she smiles at herself. "And now I don't even have time to make...
Just about every day begins with a quiet, dreaded question: whether Mike or Lori will drive Sam to Lori's mother's house for the day. She gets a knot in her stomach thinking about it, hoping to avoid a fight. Mike says he ends up doing it about half the time, though he complains about how much gas the 20-minute trip uses up. They rarely kiss each other goodbye in the morning. There's no time. Lori is usually out of the house by 7:30 and at work by 8. She skips breakfast but sips a Diet...
Five months before Sam was born, Lori went to the state bureau of child care in St. Louis and studied its records for several local day-care centers. She chose one just a few moments from her job, so she could slip over and nurse her baby at lunchtime. It cost $152 a week. Doris would go to the center in the afternoons and stay for hours. And very soon she had seen enough. "The room was too small and was crammed with cribs," she recalls. "The workers sneezed into their hands and then wouldn't wash them...
Bill Clinton woos voters with the ardor of Pepe Le Pew. Bob Dole's cranky bombast suggests a gaunter Foghorn Leghorn. And Ross Perot? Yosemite Sam. Electoral politicking can get so cartoonish that the making of political-cartoon movies might seem redundant. But Cartoongate (Kino International Video), an hour-long melange of short film parodies compiled by animator Greg Ford, proves that the men who want your vote have long been a source for ripe, mean...
...Samuel C. Cohen '00, Justin M. Krebs '00, John Paul Rollert '00, C.J. Mahoney '00; Southeast Yard: Kathleen E. Campbell '00, Chris-Tia E. Donaldson '00, E. Sonny Elizondo '00, Guckenberger, Olivia Verma '00, Robert S. Schwartz '00; Southwest Yard: Trevor S. Blake '00, Mark D. Palmenter '00, Sam Spital '00, Megan V.R. Strackbein...