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...homes around it. The open garage door displays the common items of family life: bicycles, kids' toys, garbage cans. Wilson's convertible Jaguar sits parked in the driveway. A paved walkway cuts through a manicured lawn to the front door, behind which children can be heard playing. But the slim, attractive woman who answers the door is anything but welcoming. ?Is my husband expecting you?? asks Plame, offering an icy stare as I introduce myself as a reporter for TIME...
Admit it: you feel guilty about the lightweight stuff you read in summer. But there's a compromise between Harlequin romances and Hegel's Phenomenology: brief but thoughtful volumes of history and biography. Weighing in at fewer than 200 pages, these books are slim but not slight...
...ruling on the same day allowed such displays in a different context--only made it plainer to them, and to liberals too, how crucial the court remains. Says Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, an influential group of social conservatives: "Clearly these issues are being decided by a slim majority...
...President's political operatives are already eager to ask voters next November, "Who lost Nicaragua?"). American inability to cope conclusively with such an antagonistic regime so close to home would certainly carry a price, potentially a heavy one. But the means to get rid of the Sandinistas are slim and risky. Since the Congress, much of the public and many independent experts doubt that the contras can achieve all that they and their Administration sponsors want, there is a growing temptation to give them nothing, not even the relatively piddling $100 million that President Reagan is asking...
...Simpsons became social mainstays in smart, young London. He was moneyed; she was witty. She liked to say that one can never be too thin or too rich, and she lived by that dictum. By the fall of 1930 the Simpsons were introduced to King George V's slim, somewhat dandyish son David, the Prince of Wales. Three years later, they were good enough friends that the future King was host of a party for Wallis' 37th birthday...