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While I can make the trip from staid door to chic door in half an hour, Park Avenue is the proverbial world apart, providing enough culture shock to satisfy the stymied traveler...
...last year I came home an hour earlier than expected. I found my son and his girlfriend (both had just turned 15) having sex in our backyard hot tub, music blasting, drinking wine, not using birth control, in broad daylight! After the initial shock, I immediately phoned the girl's mother (a single parent with a live-in boyfriend) and asked her to come right over. I phoned her two more times during the hour it took her to get to my home (she lives five minutes away). With parents like that, it's no wonder that so many kids...
...Maybe Starr wouldn't have tried the case anyway," my wife said. "Maybe he would have turned it over to one of those deputies who've been prosecutors, the ones the White House is always accusing of having threatened suspects' grandmothers with electric-shock treatments...
...feared Holbrooke would always be promoting himself at their expense. So the question naturally arose last week whether Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT was nervous that Holbrooke would try to eclipse her, especially since he would like to have her job in a Gore Administration. Albright's aides expressed shock that anyone could think such a thing. In fact, top Albright aides insist that she feels perfectly secure with her new underling. Before last week's announcement, the Secretary had a private meeting with Clinton and assured him, "I have no problem with strong men around me." Sensitive to concerns...
Warning to high-blood-pressure patients: you must wait at least a week before switching from the hypertension drug Posicor--a calcium-channel blocker recalled earlier this month--to an alternative blocker, a new report cautions. Four patients have gone into shock--one died--after changing within 24 hours from Posicor to another drug. The quick switch caused blood pressure to plummet to dangerously low levels...