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Public Confidence. A newly elected President dominates whatever attention is paid to public affairs and outshines Congress. Yet Bush, though active since Election Day, has yet to convert that opportunity into a stout foundation of public confidence...
...doctors and nurses at the south London hospice it had been a wrenching weekend. Twelve patients had died between Friday and Sunday nights, and by Monday morning death's wide swath had left the staff physically and emotionally exhausted. It was time for a tall, somewhat stout, white-haired woman to provide the reassurance of her presence: standing in a stairwell, in the path of grief-bruised nurses and doctors, greeting each with a jovial smile and concerned questions: "How was your weekend?" "Are you exhausted?" "Are you coping...
Ireland's newest intended export to the U.S. may not have the sparkle of Waterford crystal or the rich flavor of Guinness Stout, but it sure is earthy. The product is peat, the decayed moss that the Irish have traditionally harvested from the bottom of bogs and burned for heat and in cooking. The Irish Turf Board said last week that sometime this fall it aims to start selling briquettes of the material -- packed in shamrock-adorned cardboard boxes containing twelve lbs. each -- in U.S. supermarkets. Ireland's peat harvesters hope the carton of sod will be a popular souvenir...
...accountants and other tax preparers claim they are neither getting rich nor feeling especially powerful as a result of the daunting new rules. Gripes Miami Accountant Brenda Stout: "I'm spending twice as much time to complete people's taxes, but there's no way we can double our fees. My rates are about 25% higher than last year, and like many others, I'm just eating the difference." Some have even given up, as did the tax preparer who was helping Bryn Barnard, a free-lance illustrator from New Jersey, and his wife Rebecca. Says Barnard: "He saw what...
Cradling a sack of grain under one arm and a bag of eggs in the other, a stout woman leaves the open-air market and climbs into a horse-drawn taxi. The elderly driver, a smile creasing his weathered face, tugs on the reins and utters a sharp "Vamonos!" as the black carriage with a torn leather awning rolls away. The scene could have come from Cabbages and Kings, O. Henry's collection of picturesque short stories set in turn-of-the-century Central America. But this is no quaint, fictitious land. This is modern-day Nicaragua...