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...There was a brief glimpse of Bush hunt-and- pecking on an electric typewriter, but the script failed to make clear that he comes to work most mornings with an armful of thank-you notes, typed up the night before in his private study in the White House's second-floor residence -- the by-product of a 30-year habit of working in small strokes...
...began shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, when Marc Lepine, 25, an unemployed electronics buff who once aspired to study at the engineering school, arrived at the hilltop campus building. Armed with a hunting knife and a .223-cal. Ruger rifle manufactured in the U.S., Lepine climbed to the second-floor corridor and shot a woman student dead. Then, a carefree grin on his face, he entered the mechanical-engineering class of Professor Yvon Bouchard, where a student was in the midst of presenting his term project. "I want the women!" cried Lepine, ordering female students to one side...
...last Tuesday, Vaclav Havel stepped from a silver Volkswagen Golf and, trailed by eight fellow members of the Civic Forum, proceeded to a second-floor conference room in the cream stucco building. Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec opened the talks with a seven-minute statement outlining the government's concessions. In return, Adamec said, "please terminate your strikes. This is my wish and my plea." Havel was in no mood to be conciliatory. For the next 18 minutes, he listed the Civic Forum's demands, all of which, he said, must...
Square Books (25,000; Oxford, Miss.). This charming store in a Reconstruction- era building carries a full range of titles and offers tomato-basil pie in a second-floor cafe. Owner Richard Howorth maintains a local flavor with a section devoted to Oxford's best-known citizen, William Faulkner. A small sign above the stack of copies of the 8 1/2-lb. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reads, $5.98 PER LB. SAME AS CATFISH FILLETS...
Spence himself admits that when he took overthe second-floor corner office in University Hallfive years ago, "It was a little frightening. Theywere quite big shoes to fill...