Word: cleaver
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More than 40 years after June Cleaver, TV has again discovered the American housewife. She may wish it hadn't. In ABC's Desperate Housewives (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.), a suburban mom (Brenda Strong) wakes up one morning, does her chores, then shoots herself in the head. Her suicide leads her friends to question their own unhappy lives, from the career woman mired at home with her unruly kids (Felicity Huffman) to the maniacally perfect Martha Stewart wannabe (Marcia Cross...
...Officers were dispatched to 5 Linden St. after the report of an assault in progress. They arrested William Cicero, a former Harvard maintenance worker, after he allegedly beat a homeless man with a meat cleaver and a club...
Guns were drawn and fingers clutched the triggers, as a heavy-set older man brandishing a meat cleaver and a club glared into the eyes of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers surrounding him near the top of Linden Street...
After the suspect, William Cicero, 62, failed to heed an order to drop his weapons, one officer doused him with pepper spray. Cicero responded by throwing his meat cleaver and club at police. According to HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano, officers were at this point authorized to use lethal force...
...Cheryl Nevins, most of these women are choosing not so much to drop out as to stop out, often with every intention of returning. Their mantra: You can have it all, just not all at the same time. Their behavior, contrary to some popular reports, is not a June Cleaver-ish embrace of old-fashioned motherhood but a new, nonlinear approach to building a career and an insistence on restoring some kind of sanity. "What this group is staying home from is the 80-hour-a-week job," says Hochschild. "They are committed to work, but many watched their mothers...