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Until now, Matthews, which was essentially gutted and refitted, has undergone the most dramatic transformation. Gone is the dry wall surrounding the staircases--which hid a metal rail from the 1920s that has been uncovered, repainted and extended upward. Gone is the abstract wood sculpture from the 1960s. Gone are the rats (or so hope administrators...
Maybe the youngsters will move upward in their tastes, through Stephen King and V.C. Andrews to Hemingway, Joyce and Shakespeare. Or maybe they will boil the cat in the spaghetti...
...evening the puckish John Paul, waiting to gobble down take- out Chuckee Cheese pizza, is deliriously happy to be the center of attention. But his sister Mercedes, 18, has become worried. She has noticed an insect bite on the boy's lower arm, accompanied by a red streak running upward and inward toward his heart. The pediatrician is called, and the verdict is wrenching: the bite appears to be infected; John Paul must go straight to the emergency room...
True, Clinton came to office with support from underdogs of all descriptions -- gays, women, minorities, union members and those of the poor who manage to vote. They were hoping he might arrest the upward flow of wealth and generally take a stand with the oppressed and the harassed against the bigots and the bullies. But this never, even in a rhetorical sense, became a consistent Clinton theme. He dropped the gays like a flaming potato, suggesting they might serve in special lavender units; he abandoned the Haitians on their leaky rafts; he snubbed the unions by sticking to NAFTA...
...international level, the press is avid: unlike the feckless Brits and the sulky Grimaldis, this pair are good-news royals, appealing, admirable and with the allure of mystery. Tabloids and weeklies have become fascinated by the young woman with the Mona Lisa smile and habit of looking upward from downcast eyes -- not unlike the young Lady Di. At home, Masakomania dominates the thriving women's magazine business, although Owada has given no interviews and precious few photo opportunities...