Ben Stein's Diary
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein Giving Credit Sunday A „ w, NewYawk City, you tawk a lot. Let's have a look at 'chu," as Mick Jagger said at the beginning of the Gimme Shelter...
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...And as I read it, I thought, "This could be me...
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...She opted to not have a bit of treatment, and instead went on with her life...
...I felt really bad to be bearing such sad news...
...Mass production, I would guess...
...And do you know what the credit card companies call people like you who pay off their debts month by month and never incur interest charges...
...Maybe I already have lost everything...
...Let's have a look at 'chu," as Mick Jagger said at the beginning of the Gimme Shelter movie...
...Garment gave a long, anecdote-laden talk, but his main point was that he thought the CIA and the Democratic National Committee had something to do with the Watergate break-in even before it happened...
...As I talked to him, a taxi driver strolled in for coffee...
...She's a Democrat, but a careful and restrained one, and I hope she goes from Mayor to the White House...
...Lots of this difficulty comes from the misuse of credit cards...
...77 As I read about that poor brave woman, basically killed by her doctors as I would see it, I recalled when I was a first year student at Yale...
...Mary Hutch Moss Denman...
...A German woman came right by us, stared right through us even though I smiled at her, and then walked back, staring and looking right through us...
...So they loved her, too...
...Then we stood by the window...
...Turmoil at one of the magazines I write for...
...I had to go to a hospital to be re-medicated...
...He even sang a few bars of the song...
...Later, I went back through Georgetown where a large number of men were running muscularly through traffic in red dresses...
...The poor creature had been through all sorts of psychological torments and then had the grave misfortune to see a series of doctors who wildly over-medicated her...
...I think that every single man Jack and woman Jill in first class and some in business is accounted for...
...It's an autobiography...
...I could not get along without mine...
...They call you deadbeats and they hate you," said that judge...
...Sometimes I would take an airport bus and that cost about a dollar...
...The Hotel Pierre had a lovely room ready...
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...I was impressed...
...First class (and I know I have made this point before) costs about $i,600 for a distance of about 2.400 miles, or about sixty-six cents per mile...
...I met him when he worked for Richard Nixon, first as liaison with the arts (a doomed endeavor if it was intended to make the Beautiful People like Nixon), then as counsel, another doomed job...
...Then they have to be led out to the back yard and watched while they evacuate themselves, so that they do not stay out and bark and awaken the neighbors...
...Park view if you craned your neck, little cubbyhole for your maid if your maid was a midget, and not one soul spoke English...
...She was a member of First Families of Virginia, Colonial Dames...and the United Daughters of the Confederacy...
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...After that, I do not sleep well...
...on American Flight 75...
...What's amazing is that the genuinely evil prosecutor general of the state of Massachusetts, a real demon named Harshbarger, is actually running for governor of Massachusetts—after basically killing several innocent people in a false child sex case he would not allow to die...
...Seeder's hot lunches, then walk home through that leafy, magnificent park...
...That's why it was a disaster to have a boob like Janet Reno in charge of Waco...
...jurisdiction, there would be no insane mass child sex abuse cases like the hideously unfair Amirault case in Massachusetts, the nightmarish case in North Carolina, or the hideous case here in the South Bay...
...In fact," I said to her, "your mother obviously loved you about as much as could be...
...This man had become a bankruptcy court judge, God bless him...
...Ashamed...
...I want to go but I have been ordered to stay here and take care of Tommy...
...In many ways I wish I had never left D.C...
...to be fed...
...She was adopted by a truly wonderful couple who treated her well...
...Good civil servants like Linda Fairstein make democracies and societies of law work...
...Thus, her life has been a testament to being loved and the sad fact that her birth mom did not respond to one letter means very little...
...Credit cards are an amazing and useful instrument...
...2. Do not count on anything at all except rejection...
...Hey," he said, "how can I get on your show...
...It was drizzling when I got to D.C., but I was still happy to be in a city'C Linda Fairstein is a Democrat, but a careful and restrained one...
...It was here at this staggeringly beautiful mansion and on its grounds, that the spadework was laid for the United Nations...
...They're lively and well dressed and amazingly young, young, young...
...That's right...
...He's a diminutive, pugnacious, but very smart and funny fellow...
...This book is the single most important systematic, logical, sustained, direct, multifaceted treatment of this central issue that I know of...
...My relationship with God is the only relationship that counts...
...So I said, but I realized that logic plays a small part in dramas such as this...
...Far, far better...
...They looked extremely healthy...
...There is a lot of it around...
...Washington is truly a stunner...
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...Two of my closest friends are near bankruptcy from using their credit cards...
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...Surrender to God's will...
...Now, this surely proves my weak mindedness...
...Children do not come from the womb knowing how to be social creatures...
...He has to talk to me...
...If the wicked women and men who prosecuted the fake child sex cases in Massachusetts and elsewhere were not part of the government machin60 December 1997 • The American Spectator ery of coercion, they would just be ranting cranks on a street corner...
...Oh, happy day...
...That's the only way to win at life...
...Now, we're getting to why I'm spending so much time on my lunch — really not a very tasty lunch at that—with Linda Fairstein dog...
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...Lots of distressed people calling me up...
...He was raised largely without religion...
...That woman gave her to a 62 December 1997 • The American Spectator Catholic agency for adoption...
...My old Pa was in excellent shape, brimming with projects and thoughts...
...All these thoughts raced through my little mind as I rode home with the former rock star, now limo driver...
...What if there are detectives waiting to arrest me at LAX...
...She was the organizing regent of the Little River DAR Chapter and also served as an Arkansas State DAR officer...
...Otherwise, we're going to have a nation where tens of millions of men and women are in 19.8 percent-per-year peonage...
...Garment generously and probably accurately credits his wife, Suzanne Garment, with the editing that makes the book flow, and flow it does...
...It's in a beautiful spot so I said I would go with him...
...Now, hardly anyone does...
...Two others went through bankruptcy from the addictive drug of credit cards...
...She routinely chases faulty complainants out of her office...
...No, I mean it," I said...
...If I have enough to make it through the day, I am ahead of the game...
...O'Hara, Scarlett's impeccable Southern lady mother...
...It helped me to study and to talk back to my teachers in class and get to be a student leader...
...Teaching Tommy how to behave is as important a job as I will ever have...
...Friday N ow, this is a bit odd...
...She was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church...
...When I'm in my room at the River Inn, I constantly find myself thinking about my mother...
...If it's right, every other relationship is also right...
...About two weeks ago, she called Col...
...of human dimensions...
...Yes, of course," she said, but wow, did she look sad...
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...Fear...
...I guess no one takes taxis any longer...
...This is why government is so scary: It has the monopoly on the use of violence and confinement in society...
...I must say nothing would surprise me less...
...4. Connections are everything...
...It's amazing...
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...Maybe more than a bit...
...I did not want to have racist thoughts, but...
...He had a thick Scottish accent...
...Then I played a brief game of "Win Ben Stein's Money" with the room, and then was off like a shot to Washington, D.C...
...At that time, it was commonplace for women to have abortions, but she didn't...
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...Dale Denman, Jr., was sad and lonely for a period of time, and then he started keeping company with a lovely widow in Heber Springs, on Eden Isle, named Mary "Hutch" Moss...
...How did things change so drastically...
...to see my old Pa...
...When I have them by myself, I scowl at them, yell at them, and tell them to shut up...
...We talked for a while about the stock market, and then I went to sleep...
...In all but the fewest cases, those who come to Hollywood would be better off staying in Rockville...
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...R. told me the story of her life...
...It's what separates America from Nazi Germany, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Stalin's Russia, or Mao's China...
...Now he's praying night and day, reading books about prayer, trying to figure out what his duties are before God...
...I sent a letter to her through the agency," R. said slowly...
...I thought, with great sorrow, about Tommy and his whole generation playing video games...
...back in 1974...
...Then things fell apart, and now here he is driving people to and from the airport...
...Then on weekends and in the summer, ride my bike everywhere, no limits, into Silver Spring, into Takoma Park, everywhere, along Dale Drive, along the Parkway...
...I could lose everything...
...Denman and got Hutch on the phone...
...The only limit was our strength...
...How there could be anything but deep apologies and payments to the defendants after her articles is a total mystery, explicable only possibly by fundamental human evil...
...They gave her potent anti-psychotics like mellaril and thorazine, and also gave her powerful amphetamines like dexamyl and preludin...
...Clinton even thinking of putting doctors in jail for treating their patients according to their best judgment instead of by Hillary-imposed rules...
...When I got home, Tommy looked at me, smiled, and said, "Welcome home, Daddy...
...He's from the Post...
...Mostly David Scull, and we could go everywhere and always a child playmate to play with...
...He has a million ideas every day for articles, dozens of sharp observations, and now he's studying Jewish liturgy...
...Then it made me feel suicidal, too...
...It's about a man about my age who's a total failure, despised by his father, hated by his ex-wife, broke, a born victim...
...He's from Harvard...
...As I wandered around, I ran into my Navy friend, a woman lieutenant named R. She kept me company as we climbed up the terraces and gawked at the swimming pools...
...My roommate and I both want to get on...
...When we got to the residence, the door was opened wordlessly...
...The speaker, ably introduced by my father, is Len Garment...
...Where are the English-speaking people in New York...
...No one looked at us...
...Reno herself was instrumental in prosecuting a false-on-its-face child sex case in Florida when she worked as a prosecutor there...
...Burial place of F. Scott Fitzgerald and David and Elizabeth Scull, my dear, dear friends from childhood...
...She lay there and listened and smiled...
...Maybe it wasn't neighborhoods...
...I slept like a baby...
...Dorothy Rabinowitz has written stupendously about the case in the Wall Street Journal...
...Maybe the happiest he has ever been...
...She and her siblings read adventure books by candlelight...
...The books also critique arguments from 16th century theologians such as Luther and Calvin, as well as 20th century evangelicals like R. C. Sproul, Norman Geisler, Chuck Colson, Alister McGrath, Michael Horton, D. James Kennedy, John MacArthur, James McCarthy, James White, James Boice, J. I. Packer, and many, many others...
...Today, she told us about a really bogus case in which a woman came into her office claiming that she had been forcibly sodomized by her husband—with whom,by total coincidence, she was in a nasty divorce battle...
...But it really saddens me when they play by themselves with only the screen to react to...
...Only within the past few months did Hutch begin to take strong medication for pain, and still she carried on making dinner, playing bridge three times a week, living quietly and socially...
...I could well imagine poor Mrs...
...on every quote...
...We ate dinner at the Georgetown Seafood Grille, one of my favorite spots, on i9th Street, and then went home...
...Then there is my pal Zipporah, who knows minute by minute fear and even terror about paying for her daughter, Bathsheba, just in terms of clothes and food, let alone a home of their own...
...She was my wifie's roommate at Vassar College, and then she studied law at the University of Virginia, and after slow, painstaking work she became head of the Manhattan D.A.'s Sex Crimes Unit, and then she became Deputy D.A...
...You had better get to your knees on your own or you're going to be forced to your knees...
...We got sodas...
...PETER ICREEFT Ph.D...
...It turned out that he had been a famous singer in a group called Marmalade, in the late 196o's...
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...I want to know every detail of what you've been doing while I was gone...
...What if I get home to find out I'm broke...
...I really do not mind if kids play video games in groups...
...If someone as smart as Linda were available as prosecutor in every U.S...
...What's the difference...
...I am not kidding...
...They married soon thereafter and Col...
...The woman beat a hasty retreat...
...A close friend who is a lawyer has had some slow times, so he's now working part-time in one of the world's most difficult jobs: selling residential real estate...
...But, alas, it's the truth...
...6. Do not expect to generate much of your psychic income from Hollywood...
...But what was going on there at the German Embassy...
...My car is a shiny new Mercedes sedan...
...Maybe we were at the Stahlhelmbund reception or the Odessa alumni reunion by mistake...
...Soon I'll be driving people home from the airport I'll be broke...
...I asked her...
...It's not big, but it's clean...
...Linda would be smart enough to see through allegations of rape with a butcher knife where there were no wounds, easily smart enough to see through lies about rapists riding brooms and burying animals in schoolyards...
...I had planned to ride a bike, but there were no bikes to be rented...
...After all, the kids he sees at school have scant idea of it...
...Hutch and he traveled to Arkansas football games, took a cruise through the Panama Canal, entertained, told wonderfully non-PC jokes, and laughed, laughed, laughed...
...He looked at me blankly...
...Saturday A hike through town to Thompson's Boathouse, where a rowing regatta was going on...
...No one, not a soul, looked at us...
...I went out for a walk...
...She had been born to a woman who was not married...
...A few days ago, she went into a coma and today she died...
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...It is probably about as depressing a book as could be imagined...
...I always loved it when I called Col...
...I gave a little talk about entertainment, interactivity, and "Win Ben Stein's Money...
...For months, I was a basket case from their wild over-prescribing of drugs...
...There were crews from Annapolis, West Point, the University of Virginia, the University of Maryland, plus many other colleges and some high schools...
...There is one very quick way to get yourself into better behavior: Hang around with better people...
...Tuesday I cannot sleep...
...Around Sixth Avenue and Fifty-Seventh Street, I came BENJAMIN J. STEIN is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Hollywood and Malibu...
...Instead, she had you and gave you a life when it would have been a lot easier and less embarrassing to just kill you in the womb in a doctor's office...
...I am your father and I want you to tell me what you've been doing...
...I'm doing another appearance for Comedy Central to promote them and my show, "Win Ben Stein's Money...
...In unaccented English he told me how much he loved the Spectator...
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...3. If you still want to come, plan on a really long stay before you get anything at all going...
...Otherwise, we make a date a week in advance and drive him everywhere and have to watch every single thing he does...
...Linda told us how she busted the woman's con by telling her that if she filed the complaint, Linda would be bound to pursue it and the divorce would probably be thrown into abeyance with no prospect of alimony or split of community property until after long years of prosecution and possible appeal...
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...When I was in high school, the whole school turned out for games...
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...The room is filled with advertising people...
...Time, time, time, see what's become of me...
...Tonight, no matter how the storm and wind rage outside, I will stay in the warm, soothing tank of faith in my God...
...A very tall black fellow followed me in...
...It's interesting, touching, and stunningly well written...
...I guess they're all at Morgan Stanley...
...Stay well away unless you really need them...
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...Garment's suffering on both anti-psychotic and stimulant medication...
...Hutch was a well-organized woman and she helped to prepare her own obituary, a portion of which reads as follows: "She was a descendant of pioneer Mississippians and was born in Columbus, Mississippi...
...I actually had a good experience with that drug, for a few months...
...There was a reporter from the Washington Post there taking careful notes...
...I felt extremely weak and old by comparison, but I enjoyed the sights anyway...
...My main points that I made to the few who cared to show up to hear: 1. If you go, bring a ton of money...
...Linda Fairstein is one of the most amazing women of all time...
...Strong men and women were straining to get into the water and race...
...105.00 for five hdbks) and add $6.00 shipping...
...She substituted truly unique courage for chemo and x-rays...
...Alex is off to the funeral, which will be in Natchez...
...It's just impossible to believe that I won't ever hear her on the phone again saying, "It's Mom in Watergate apartment...
...Talking to her about something this deep felt strange...
...So you see...
...I am going to give a lecture to his students about Hollywood and going there to make your career...
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...Guess what the ride to midtown Manhattan costs: $208 plus tax, for a 25-mile trip...
...He said that most days of the week his courtroom was filled with men and women who were bankrupt solely because of credit cards...
...I was sitting in the first row of first class, reading Seize The Day by Saul Bellow...
...of all Manhattan, and I think she will be Mayor some day...
...I don't think I've ever been in such a strange room...
...How vividly I recall waking up on a warm morning to walk through Sligo Creek Park to school, learn and play in school, eat Mrs...
...Her hubby is a lawyer who works for the exploiting class, which we all want to become part of...
...David Scull and I. Carl Bernstein and I. Gene Daumit...
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...As I rode in I recalled how, when I was a lad in college, I would take a taxi to the airport and it cost $2.50...
...Later, when I went back to Yale, I had another doctor who told me I should take dexamyl for my weight (which was never that bad but a certain family member was always nagging me about it...
...There is a wall of drivers waiting to take passengers from my flight into town...
...Well, now Tommy plays with a machine that teaches him how good it is to kill with a lot of blood...
...Plus, they have all those nice maple trees...
...C Two of my closest friends are near bankruptcy from using their credit cards...
...It was a brilliantly sunny day...
...Denman and her two children into her room and asked them to talk to her about their happiest memories of childhood...
...She had always lived in the Deep South, in Mississippi or Louisiana or Arkansas, had been married, had children, been widowed...
...If we turn that off, he reads...
...I have been away for about a week, my boy...
...She never answered," said R., looking suddenly as if she were the most alone woman on earth...
...Maybe it's just because I moved to L.A...
...About two and a half years ago, Hutch was diagnosed with a particularly cruel form of cancer and told she had to have aggressive chemo and radiation therapy in order to add a little more time to her life...
...Expect at least as many downs as ups...
...It gave me the creeps...
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...Leonard Garment has written a book called Crazy Rhythm...
...God bless 'em...
...They don't make them like Hutch anymore...
...Speaking of which, me old Dad was hard at work on some article when I got back to his apartment...
...Terrible," I said at the time...
...But today we are not here for a wedding or Bar Mitzvah...
...I walked into Georgetown, and then up to Dumbarton Oaks...
...They had a radio they listened to that was powered by ancient batteries...
...Just recently, as she enters her mid-thirties, she has wanted to meet her birth mother...
...It is a thrill to see him so well after my mother's death...
...My father got an invitation to a reception at the German Embassy on Foxhall Road...
...Anyway, we left in a hurry...
...Catholic scholars have written two long-awaited books: Not By Faith Alone: The Biblical Evidence for the Catholic Doctrine of Justification and Not By Scripture Alone: A Catholic Critique of the Protestant Doctrine of Sola Scriptura...
...The kids he sees on TV have no idea of it...
...Wednesday A bout five years ago, my wife's mother died...
...Less likelihood that they'll end up as junkies...
...Here I am stepping onto New York City soil at Kennedy airport to head into Manhattan...
...She could easily have killed you...
...And they'll go home and in the mail the next week will be offers for new credit cards," he said...
...First, her real mother loved her enough to keep her and give her life when it must have been extremely embarrassing in some ways to be pregnant...
...He hovered near me as I picked out my apple juice and bagel...
...Sunday B ack to L.A...
...across an open deli...
...Humiliated...
...I lie in bed and pray for an hour before I fall asleep...
...I do not feel as if I am anything but an ant about to get squashed in New York...
...A passerby told me it's some kind of drinking club and every year they run through the streets in a weird costume...
...Instead I studied the green grass, the blue gray Potomac, the green and amber trees on Roosevelt Island, the gray and glassy skyscrapers in Rosslyn, the stolid, Stalinesque Kennedy Center, the graceful Memorial Bridge and the antique, almost oxidized looking Key Bridge...
...No...
...Maybe Stanley Sitnick...
...But I don'tthink so...
...She had grown up on a plantation in the delta of Mississippi in an era when there was not yet electricity...
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...I blame them for their own improvidence...
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...They do not know how to interact with their parents...
...But I also blame the credit card companies...
...But when Alex is here, she gets up and feeds them...
...Only when I left Yale for a leave of absence did I stop taking their evil meds and start feeling normal...
...She had a lovely, lilting Magnolia State accent...
...I hugged him and then he went into his room to read a Star Wars book...
...If they stay in Rockville, they have at least a shot at a normal life...
...Even when you think things are going great, they won't be for long...
...There is only one big idea in life: that if we want, we can be connected with God...
...He's 21...
...On the other hand, when a real crime has occurred, she is merciless and thorough, a true avenging angel of justice...
...She has zero patience with women who cry rape because the "assailant" never called to ask for a second date...
...Another friend, a truly smart man, is about to leave the military and is worried about getting a job that will pay him enough to pay off his credit cards and afford to live...
...SCOTT HAHN Ph.D...
...Always cheerful, always helpful, always full of compliments even when the cancer was raging...
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...If so, Catholic Christians have a challenge for you...
...When did neighborhoods collapse...
...If I truly believe that God rules my life and that I am in His hands all of the time, I must believe and do believe that every moment I am where I am supposed to be, doing what I am supposed to do...
...But I feel as if I can think and breathe in D.C...
...Monday L unch with Linda Alice Fairstein dog and her husband Justin Feldman dog (all of our close friends are dogs) at Michael's at 55th and Fifth...
...Scary...
...When I got back to my father's apartment, I read more of Garment's book...
...Denman still went to see the Razorbacks, had people over for drinks and non-PC jokes, and went occasionally to see the LSU Tigers, and lived quietly...
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...Not one soul...
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...This is going to be me," I thought...
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...Then she sighed...
...As I unpacked, I had a thought so I went to get him and brought him in to talk to me as I emptied my suitcase...
...My father in law, Col...
...64 December 19 9 7 • The American Spectator Denman was about as happy as I have ever seen him...
...My old college roommate, David S. Paglin, is a drama teacher at Montgomery College there...
...My racist fears were mistaken...
...Thursday I 'm in Rockville, Maryland, the county seat of mighty Montgomery County, where I grew up...
...Like something out of The Fearless Vampire Killers...
...Silent night...
...5. Nothing is consistent in Hollywood except inconsistency...
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...She and Col...
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...I cringed...
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...Still, the point begged to be made...
...The dose he gave me was so strong that it led to paralysis—luckily, temporary— in my limbs...
...He's doing a profile of me...
...Psychoactive drugs are truly scary things...
...They had a big hit called "Reflections of My Life...
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...Poor, poor woman...
...It all reminds me that about a year ago I ran into a man I had gone to junior high school with...
...She was a wreck, felt suicidal, and then killed herself in a particularly sad and lonely way.44 Psychoactive drugs are truly scary things...
...77 Monday I awakened early because our dogs have gotten into the maddening habit of howling at two a.m...
...Tuesday H ere we are in the ballroom of the Pierre, where many a wedding and Bar Mitzvah have taken place...
...Sure enough, he started to tell me about various levels he had reached in his video games, about things he had bought for his Magic deck, and even about some behavior problems at school...
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...I talked to a fledgling shrink, who gave me a stunning dose of tranquilizers...
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...I felt a lot of anxiety about my work, and so I went to the Yale medical center for students...
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...Dinner at the Cosmos Club at a book and author dinner...
...There was a smallanteroom filled to the brim with Germans talking softly to one another...
...Plus, my wife is super stressed by her work...
...You know that had nothing to do with you and your merits as a woman, don't you...
...That's why it was scary to have Mrs...
...I'm his Dad...
...Less likelihood that they'll end up as call girls...
...Forbes "Researching insurance companies can be confusina and tedious...
...Call us at 1-800-431-1147, 24 hrs...
...The kids looked sadder and sadder as I talked to them...
...Some limits on their use seem to me to be in order...
...It's amazing...
...Now, she was in Eden Isle, and she was keeping company with Dale Denman...
...I felt as if I were talking to Mrs...
...When I got off the plane, there was a neatly groomed chauffeur waiting to take me home...
Vol. 30 • December 1997 • No. 12
