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...bias isn't clear enough, let me come clean. I am the son of a bread-truck driver who taught me never to enter a restaurant or store in which I couldn't shake the hand of the owner. Only with great pain do I admit that the every place/no place that Moe speaks of--an America built in strips and spurts and without hesitation or nearly enough shame--has one thing going for it. It works. Location, value, convenience--the retail superhighway has got all that. On rare occasions, I suppose, you can even find quality and service there...
...officer of the Booster Club, which supports the district's popular athletic programs. "I couldn't get a single parent to attend a planning meeting, and we had just won a state championship in football," he says. But before ruling out the Osceola system for his five-year-old son Jackson, Brothers saw one last opportunity: to open a publicly financed charter school. Governor Mike Huckabee had signed legislation in early 1999 that would allow for as many as 12 charter schools, independent of local districts, to be established in the state. So Brothers, along with the Chamber of Commerce...
This just in: A judge in New York City has rejected a father's petition to change his son's name from Francis to Frank. Citing famous Francises in history--Assisi, Sinatra, Coppola--the judge observed that the name has a classy pedigree. And besides, he wrote, the kid can always just tell people to call him Frank. This decision is bad news for our 10-year-old, who has long hoped to change her name from Emily to Emili. She made the switch informally in third grade, when she was looking for something more sophisticated. Suddenly, a name rich...
...Bush adviser. Exception: JOHN McCAIN, whose Senate status is overshadowed by his celebrity. Besides, he'd bark if cut out. Not so lucky is former President GEORGE BUSH, who will, like all living G.O.P. ex-Presidents, be seen (in a video tribute) but not heard, lest he overshadow his son and remind voters of the past. BARBARA BUSH is another matter. Some advisers want the former First Lady to introduce her son on the final night...
...Washington, where he earned his stripes as co-chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee in 1972, Lenzner has amassed a circle of powerful friends that includes Cokie Roberts, former Senator Tim Worth and Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and his wife Brooke Shearer. Lenzner's son Jon, 26, defended his dad's professional tactics: "As a civil rights lawyer, Watergate prosecutor and chairman of I.G.I., he has remained committed to a high ethical standard." The Lenzners are hoping that claim won't go out with the trash...