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...drug test, with its traces of methamphetamines, could land her in jail and her two kids in foster care. "They got CHILD ABUSE stamped on my file, and that is not true. I neglected my kids, I'll admit that, but I never abused them." Sitting in a cramped second-floor apartment in East San Diego carpeted with dirty laundry and food remnants, the single mother abruptly changes tack. "What if I go to jail? Who'll take care of my kids?" Davis breaks into Roper's panicked monologue. "I gotta think about this and make some calls, Diana...
...Senate Ethics Committee's unanimous, bipartisan call for his expulsion. He took to the airwaves, decrying the charges against him of sexual and official misconduct and vowing that his decision to fight on was irrevocable. But then certain lights came on. At 12:30 p.m. Packwood slipped into his second-floor hideaway in the Capitol Building to confer with two of his staunchest defenders, Republican Senators Alan Simpson of Wyoming and John McCain of Arizona. Gently, but persistently, his colleagues delivered a firm message: this has got to end. Twenty minutes into the meeting, majority leader Robert Dole joined...
Hughes generally begins work at 5 a.m., climbing to a second-floor office in a barn at his Long Island, New York, home. When he needs a break, he likes to go downstairs to his carpentry shop, where he builds furniture. "I find the action of hand-planing extremely soothing," he says. "It zoids you out." After lunch he takes a long nap, a ritual he began in 1964 following a trip to Italy. "God help anybody who tries to reach me between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," he laughs...
...officials and the firing of a first-line supervisor (who was reinstated this year by a federal appeals court in Chicago). The experience, however, took a grave toll on the pair's careers and personal lives. For two months, Klipfel says, the couple had their children sleep in a second-floor closet as a precaution against retaliatory shootings...
...risk his shot at the top and a well-ordered life of small-town philanthropy--he gave $2,000 a year in college scholarships to graduating Moweaqua seniors--to spy on his own company. They were still wondering as Whitacre continued to report to work last week at his second-floor office in ADM headquarters...