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From Gloucester take East Main Street south along the harbor towards Eastern Point and visit the fantasy house, Beauport, which was built by Henry Davis Sleeper a prominent interior designer of the 1920s and 1930s, decorator to such stars as Joan Crawford and Fredric March.
For Clarke's concern about an al Qaeda presence in the United States, see NSC briefing materials, TNT to Rice, counterterrorism briefing for Bush/Cheney transition team, undated, which noted that al Qaeda had "sleeper cells" in more than 40 countries, including the United States; NSC memo, "Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist Networks of al Qida: Status and Prospects," undated (appears to be Dec. 29, 2000), attached to NSC memo, Clarke to Rice, Jan.
The president's "cradle to grave" proposals (Pat Buchanan, The McLaughlin Group ) were likely to paralyze the Republicans, because nobody wants to go on record as being against child care (Paul Gigot, NewsHour ). Unless the Republicans slip out of the sleeper hold, Clinton's two initiatives will serve as "wedge issues" to separate the two parties in the minds of voters for the 1998 election (Tony Blankley, Late Edition ).
Remember that scene in "Sleeper" where it's revealed that in the future everybody knows the only really healthy substances are red meat and cigarettes?
"[T]he most far-ranging, information-rich analysis of our seismic racial shifts since Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma of 1944," says Jim Sleeper in the Wall Street Journal . In the New York Times Book Review , however, Nicholas Lemann says, "To assume the Myrdal mantle means speaking in a calm, clear, generous voice, but America in Black and White does this only intermittently.
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