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...monster: "... and I got so mad I kicked the table and I stubbed my toe on the same foot that I hurt last month when I accidentally slipped in the bathtub after I got soap in my eyes trying to wash out the bird poo that my brother's cockatoo ..." This is Leonardo's defining moment. He decides to switch to something he can be good at: being a friend. Willems, who wrote for Sesame Street, works in a large format and makes striking use of blank space. But there is nothing empty about his sentiments...
...overwhelming majority, the Riverkeeper board supported the staff decision. Wegner paid for his crime of smuggling the eggs of the cockatoo (which is not a rare bird, as you claimed) with three years in prison. He is genuinely remorseful and intent on reforming his life. Robert Boyle's decision to leave his position as president of Riverkeeper came after he was informed that the board would remove him from that office for reasons unrelated to Wegner's hiring. Boyle is an icon of the environmental movement...
...chief attorney for Riverkeeper, a New York environmental group, ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. is charged with monitoring the state's watershed and generally being greener than thou. Which makes his defense of William Wegner--a man convicted of smuggling rare cockatoo eggs into the U.S. to be hatched and sold as pets--somewhat bizarre. Riverkeeper president Robert Boyle fired Wegner, a consulting scientist, in December, when he discovered the 1995 conviction. But Kennedy secretly rehired Wegner, and at a board meeting this week, insisted that Wegner be kept on. Eight board members, including Boyle, quit in protest. "I was appalled...
...already well-coiffed, highlighted blond hair. Then she takes me to her room, where a Gateway computer and a Sony Vaio vie with her Laura Ashley bedspread set and wicker furnishings. "The Vaio is such a beautiful thing," she sighs. We go back downstairs and say hello to cockatoo Agidore and Katie?s older sister ? also blond and round faced with intelligent blue eyes, back from Brown University for spring break. "Don?t Katie and I look alike?" she asks...
SOPHIA LOREN JULY 7, 1999: Having arrived in a horse-drawn carriage to open a summer sale, the alluring and mature actress fell off a stage after being attacked by a cockatoo at Harrods, the famed London department store...