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...mats (that are usually in the dining room and bedrooms). Wear a separate pair of slippers in the bathroom (forgetting to change back and walking around in lavatory shoes is a horrifying faux pas). In the anteroom of bathing rooms, disrobe and wash vigorously under the showers. Only when spotless can you soak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey by Back Roads into Japan's Past | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...state's math exam--the best performance in the district. The dropout rate--15% in 1995--is down to 4%. The old Fox Tech literally smelled from garbage left to rot in corners and from homeless men who used the fountain as a toilet. Now the school is spotless. Open house, which used to draw perhaps 60 parents, regularly attracts 600--spurred, no doubt, by Cockrell's having dispatched faculty to knock on doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Of The Year: From Worst To First | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...Lawrence's spotless league record did little to intimidate the Crimson as it steamrolled over the Saints with a 2-1 victory yesterday afternoon...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez and Jennie L. Sullivan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: No. 5 W. Hockey Beats No. 4 St. Lawrence, Cornell | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Clearly, St. Lawrence's spotless league record was not entirely out of luck. Its scrappiness and determination, coupled with less defensive pressure from the Crimson, showed that the Saints' conference record is not a fluke--it allowed the Saints to erase Ruddock's shutout in the final stanza...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez and Jennie L. Sullivan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: No. 5 W. Hockey Beats No. 4 St. Lawrence, Cornell | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...general the Ramseys fare well before Walters. The couple picked a lovely location for the interview, a room so serene and spotless it could be a priest's quarters. They are also dressed perfectly, Patsy wearing just the right touch of pink lipstick. They don't sob and shout, yet they aren't passionless. At one point, Patsy leans over in tears onto John's shoulder, and he mumbles something treacly--and acted?--about JonBenet being "with us" in spirit. But Walters says the Ramseys believed the cameras had stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Find the Killer | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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