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...crashed into the Kirkland House library—said to be the oldest building in Cambridge—when a valet lost control of a patron’s car while making a left turn onto JFK Street around 8:30 p.m. last night. Five fire engines, an ambulance, a tow truck and a handful of police cars—all with lights flashing—cordoned off two blocks of JFK Street, as about 50 students and passersby looked on and a local news crew darted about the scene. The driver, whom police would not identify by name...
...path to closet mania starts innocently. Wanting extra space in their bedroom for exercise equipment or a home office, they go to a store or leaf through a catalog. But as soon as they see all the available goodies, the reorganizing bug spreads. "Every time we install a valet rod, they come back and want two or three more," says Kristina Ferrigan of Closets.com And once you've done one closet, how can you ignore the others...
...plants aren’t the only ones who are well-fed though. It regularly treats its employees to company dinners and catered picnics. The Bank has no qualms about taking us to the ritziest restaurants in Washington, including those that have streams of Bentleys lined up at the Valet (and I’ve been told by my boss that our group only uses 2/3 of its annual discretionary budget!). Compared with the unpaid political interns also residing in the dorms at George Washington University, I live like a king...
...being worried about their own eight hostages in the Middle East, had an irresistible Gaullist urge to preserve their military independence. "No blank checks," a French official said of Paris' refusal to go along with the U.S. action. Concurred a French army colonel: "We will not be the Americans' valet d'armes--their orderly or spear carrier." The Italians have an enduringly bad con-science about Mussolini's colonial war against Libya and, to be sure, are concerned about 4,000 Italians living there today. West German leaders appear to have chosen to indulge the strong, barely dormant pacifist streak...
DIED. Stephen Barry, 38, personal valet to Prince Charles until 1982, when he left his post of twelve years amid reports that he had been forced out by the Princess; of pneumonia, complicated by the AIDS virus; in London. Two volumes of his memoirs, Royal Service and Royal Secrets, unpublished in Britain in deference to the palace, appeared in the U.S., where they sold briskly despite their tame content...