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...Wednesday, all of Washington woke up to an above-the-fold banner headline in the Post blaring the news LOVE CONQUERS WHAT AILS TEENS. Gee, all this time I thought it was Guess jeans and $140 Air Jordans. What kind of love? Parental, rock-star, tough or backseat? When I found out it was the kind a mother can give, I thought it was news after all. How sweet, how wholesome, and what a relief. There were times when my love for my own particular teenager seemed capable of curing very little, much less whatever ailed her. For one three...
...quickly as I can. It is important to know where the door is when running quickly from the room, as it is hard to see with pantyhose over your head, especially while running at high speeds. Once while fleeing a laundry room, I smacked into a dryer and woke up in a small holding room at campus police headquarters with four drunks and an Action Man suspect...
...Maryvale area of Phoenix, Ariz., at 4 a.m. one day last week, using a sledgehammer to bludgeon their way into the house. In one bedroom they found Louisa Sharrah and proceeded to bind her arms with plastic cuffs and strike her with a metal flashlight. The men woke her young children and held them at gunpoint as they screamed in terror. Then the invaders kicked in the door to the bedroom where Foote, a 23-year-old construction worker, and his girlfriend, Wright, a 19-year-old college student, had been sleeping. Gunfire erupted as the men forced...
...creeping self-doubt of the lovelorn: "In your heart, uncertainty forever lies/ And you'll always be somewhere on the outside." Says Carey: "I feel more free to put more of myself into my music. There's a lot of real emotion in Butterfly. I lived with it. I woke...
...becoming an endangered species. At no time has this been more clear than in the past week ? in which any hardcore vice-meister who thought they could steer clear of nicotine patches or veggie burgers was forced to think again. It was an especially bad time for smokers. They woke up on Monday morning to the news that tobacco companies plan to stick them with the bill for their multi-billion dollar lawsuit settlement, costing an extra 62 cents a pack. By Friday, CEOs from Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco were tentatively admitting that their cigarettes could have ? whisper...