Word: wanderlied
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...students who live in Dunster House, ants are the unwelcome roommates that crawl into clothing, wander across homework assignments, and invade precious packages of chocolate-chip cookies...
...George Bush wander a few miles from the Oval Office or the womb of Air Force One, and he is apt to go native in search of the great American middle class. He has been sighted in a Frederick, Md., JCPenney store buying socks and recorded in New Hampshire's political precincts slanging from the stump about frogs without wings and liberals jumping on an unspecified part of his anatomy. Last week he uncovered a cache of supermarket checkout gear at the Orlando convention of the National Grocers Association. The pampered and protected President was dazzled. Supermarket habitues have been...
...Goddess I and II, with only 116 berths each for cruises costing $10,000 for a week's holiday for two. "On the Sea Goddess, it's like being an invited guest on a yacht," says Ronald Santangelo, senior vice president. "If you get up at 3 a.m. and wander out to the hot tub and would like to have caviar and a bottle of champagne, somebody will be there in two minutes with it. No questions asked." And no additions to the bill...
...next day Antwan and his mom show up at juvenile court, which is crammed into the basement of Clarence Mitchell. The building's massive columns, vaulted ceilings and dimly lighted corridors conjure fleeting images of a dungeon. Children wander the hallways, a few in tears. The water fountains are too high for most to reach. Lawyers, their arms spilling over with folders, bustle about. Sheriff's deputies cast jaundiced eyes...
...surely that is just what God must have said to Camden. To wander through its neighborhoods is to wonder what America should be doing with towns like this, towns that cry out for help yet seem beyond saving. The city demands a kind of urban triage: Is this one worth reviving, or should what little cash that is earmarked for redevelopment go into places that show greater promise of survival? Many American cities have sinkholes that are just as run-down, burned out, crime ridden and drug infested. The difference is that this describes all of Camden, not just part...