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...Castro, whose grandmother was running the office of a San Francisco chemical firm in 1914, when she was only 18. Castro's parents co-managed a small meat company. While in college, Castro dreamed of running her own business, but the journalist's notebook won out over the balance sheet...
George was always the star of the family, a natural athlete, no intellectual but a good student, liked by everyone, especially the adults. Somehow the other kids did not want to short-sheet his bed for this. "They accepted from the start that George was going to be the best in whatever activity," his mother says. "Someone asked me, 'Wasn't it hard for Pres that his younger brother was able to do everything so well?' But George never boasted, so it was all part of the family performance." The category that Bush's parents monitored most closely at Greenwich...
...punctuation is something more than a culture's birthmark; it scores the music in our minds, gets our thoughts moving to the rhythm of our hearts. Punctuation is the notation in the sheet music of our words, telling us when to rest, or when to raise our voices; it acknowledges that the meaning of our . discourse, as of any symphonic composition, lies not in the units but in the pauses, the pacing and the phrasing. Punctuation is the way one bats one's eyes, lowers one's voice or blushes demurely. Punctuation adjusts the tone and color and volume till...
Hideki Gondo (Tsutomu Yamazaki) is her dark double, a crippled, spidery man whose vast real estate portfolio includes a chain of notorious hot-sheet hotels. Gondo's outward manner vividly contrasts with Ryoko's. He too has a childish air about him, but it is the air of a spoiled child. Abruptly cruel and totally selfish, he is as maniacally dedicated to tax avoidance as she is to tax compliance. She may spare a moment from investigative accountancy for compassion (directed at his troubled teenage son). He may digress from getting and hoarding to express a possibly authentic romantic longing...
...capella groups. You need practically no singing experience to join the Rats, and we really have a lot of fun," she says. The Singing Rats, whose name comes from the "mouse hole," a stage entrance in the Currier House fishbowl, say they do not require the ability to read sheet music...