The trials of a 'champagne socialist.' (travails of a father spending the Christmas holidays with his grown children)(Column)

Article Abstract:

A father describes the bickering and tensions that arise when he spends a week with his grown children at a ski cabin in Whistler, British Columbia. He recounts the fights over bedding, fire logs, and groceries and how one child dubbed the father a 'champagne socialist.'

Fathers

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On the beach with bathtub beauties

Article Abstract:

A man describes the various people he met while vacationing at Club Med on Columbus Isle in the Bahamas. The guests included a temperamental Italian doctor, a ex-Marine from Chicago with musical talent, and an English beauty who claims she was conceived in a bathtub.

Services, Club Mediterranee S.A., CMI

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No story here, boss. Sorry

Article Abstract:

The columnist describes his summer vacation on an island in the Pacific. He watched only videos as there is no TV. Conversation tended to revolve around sightings of cougars on the island, tennis, and the season-ending tennis tournament.

Summer

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