Word: standing
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...fill the void. Duff wants $100,000 a month for the couple's daughter Caleigh, 4. Duff already gets $12,000 a month for Caleigh and $1.5 million a year for herself. But Perelman, reportedly worth $6 billion, let his bid for sympathy slip away when he took the stand and said it takes only "about $3" a day to feed the child when she's with him. (Her menu: pasta, cereal and chicken fingers.) The next day he clarified his remarks, saying he actually spends $1,000 a day on her. Over to you, Patricia...
...frenzied. Their month-long absences are like those of truckers, except that calls home over ship-to-shore phones are prohibitively expensive. Recounts Grainger pilot Kip Brown: "Three days after my daughter was born, I caught a boat in St. Louis for 60 days. My wife didn't stand for too much of that. The second marriage, two sons, pretty much the same. I got one now I just married, she comes from a towboatin' family." As for churchgoing, it's "so easy to forget. When you get home, you tell yourself you don't want to let anything...
...ethnic Albanian rebels on autonomy -- but not independence -- for Kosovo. "The possibility of any agreement between the Serbs and the Albanians is very slight," says Anastasijevic. "Most ethnic Albanian parties won't even negotiate about anything short of independence, and Milosevic is exploiting that to maintain his own tough stand -- right now neither side has given up hope of achieving their objectives by force...
...Union speech Tuesday night? Almost a year to the day after the Monica Lewinsky story first broke, a disgraced President is on trial in one chamber of Congress, being called a liar, a cheat and a threat to the rule of law, while in the other he will stand and claim credit for the best year in a half-century, and the audience will rise and shout amen. Republicans wonder, Do they clap, stand or walk out on the speech? Should they even show...
...Union does not stand on who the President is," says pastor John Glennon, an ally of Currier's. "The State of the Union is a matter of heart. It's not a matter of persons." But Clinton, like every President before him, will do everything in his power to suggest otherwise. There was never much chance that Clinton would delay his speech until the trial was over. Never in memory has a President had so much to brag about and so many reasons to do it loudly. Clinton, forever the luckiest of men, is the luckiest of Presidents...