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...carry lacrosse sticks across carefully manicured lawns. Located in Wallingford, Conn., 12 miles north of New Haven, it is the button-down boarding school boasting such notable alumni as John F. Kennedy and Glenn Close -- a place of birch and magnolia trees and Colonial Revival brick buildings with white trim, intimate dormers and gilded towers...
...brick and surface details such as window trim and balconies is designed to make the Inn blend into the surrounding traditional buildings, Bechtel says. "It is intended to relate to the existing houses along Mass. Ave. as well as the river," he says...
...shirts. Outside B.J.'s Wholesale Club in Medford, Mass., a white stretch limo waits at the curb while its passengers roam the cavernous discount warehouse. At Tom's Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once sent their maids and drivers to the back door with bundles of high-fashion castoffs to sell now bring them by in person and stick around to shop...
...mothers and their children? That question arises whenever new data appear about America's disgraceful infant-mortality rate. The short answer is that the question is based on the false assumption that squeezing the Pentagon will mean more funds for better prenatal care. In fact, the Administration plans to trim defense spending by $44 billion over the next five years. The savings will trickle into the S&L bailout and other fiscal black holes...
...months ago, he made history by becoming the nation's first black elected Governor. But residual racism will be a problem for him, as will his lack of foreign policy experience, disdain for political organizing and habit of picking quarrels with powerful Democrats just to keep in fighting trim. Some insiders believe that Wilder's real aim is to become the vice-presidential nominee...