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...admit that their kids are spoiled. In New York City it's the Bat Mitzvah where 'N Sync was the band; in Houston it's a catered $20,000 pink-themed party for 50 seven-year-old girls who all wore mink coats, like their moms. In Morton Grove, Ill., it's grade school teachers handing out candy and yo-yos on Fridays to kids who actually managed to obey the rules that week. Go to the mall or a concert or a restaurant and you can find them in the wild, the kids who have never been told...
...Wednesday that's exactly what he did, shaking hands with Bush in the Oval Office on an ill-defined compromise. And before Norwood could go back to his camp and be persuaded to break his promise (as Administration aides complained he had done before), Bush locked him in. "Charlie's not leaving without the press knowing we have a deal," the President told aides. "I'll walk him to his car and give a thumbs-up if I have to." He didn't have to. Instead he marched Norwood in front of the cameras to make an announcement. There...
...never got sentimental. But she sat with her best friend Meg Greenfield, op-ed editor of the Post, through almost every chemotherapy treatment in a losing battle with cancer. She talked with her old friend Nancy Reagan almost every week after the former President fell ill. No one quite took care of friends the way Kay Graham did. One night she shared Chinese food with me and my daughter as Courtney and I argued over the propriety of a strapless wedding gown. "Now, Courtney," Kay said, "this is your wedding. You're the one wearing the dress. You should...
...first Chinese hominid fossils dating from the Pleistocene era that began 1.8 million years ago, bolstering the theory that modern Chinese are descended from these early men. DIED. WALLACE REYBURN, 87, war correspondent and author of 25 books, including Rehearsal for Invasion, the first-hand account of the ill-fated Dieppe raid of 1942; in London. A deadpan wit, he raised eyebrows with Flushed with Pride, the story of John Crapper, father of the modern toilet and Bust-Up, a spoof biography of the inventor of the modern bra, Otto Titzling. DIED. PAUL MAGLOIRE, 93, dictator of Haiti from...
DEERFIELD, Ill.—Summers in deepest suburbia are not known for thrill-a-minute excitement, but mine is beginning to border on the absurd...