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Nothing in Biden's campaign became him like the leaving of it. Unlike Gary Hart four months earlier, he sounded wistful rather than self-righteous. Bidding farewell to supporters in Iowa on Thursday, he asserted, "Nobody did this to Joe Biden. There had to be something there . . . to stitch together." Addressing reporters directly, he added, "I think you all have treated me fairly. I have no rancor, no complaints...
...careerist facing a mid-life crisis of confidence -- Is she at her peak or past it? -- or the cripple any woman feels herself to be when her man goes randying after younger bodies and more pliant hearts. Andrews doesn't tear a passion to tatters; she uses it to stitch a coherent soul...
...stitch together the Lauren tale, Angelo interviewed the designer and his key associates, then spoke with fashion editors, Wall Street analysts, various competitors and Actress Candice Bergen, a Lauren client. For good measure, Angelo took an advance peek at Lauren's new furniture line...
...mola that also brought the Peace Corps to San Blas. These vibrantly colored, intricately patterned, hand-stitched cloth panels are essential not only to the Kuna woman's traditional dress but to her life. From her first crude attempts at the difficult reverse applique, a Kuna woman will stitch on her mola daily, first for her trousseau, then to sell. Yet when the corps arrived in 1963, Indian women were shedding their artful garb for cheap cotton dresses, and it was feared the unique craft of the mola would be lost, along with the cash it earned the Indians...
...stitch. At 65, Leah Adler still has enough vim to run a kosher restaurant in West Los Angeles with her second husband Bernie while moonlighting as an extra in the Amazing Stories episode directed by Clint Eastwood. Back in the early '60s, though, in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Leah Spielberg could summon just enough energy to ride the roller coaster called Young Steven. "He was my first, so I didn't know that everybody didn't have kids like him," she recalls with a happy shrug. "I just hung on for dear life. He was always the center...