A woman's private plumbing?
He did private plumbing jobs until age 45, when he quit to become a plumbing instructor at Patuxent, a maximum-security state prison in Jessup, Md. "I felt safer in the prison than I did in the street," Mr. Buettner said.
Since Mr. McLean's arrest, he and his wife have had to dip into their savings to pay lawyer's fees, he has lost half of his private plumbing business, has received no municipal contracts, and his children have been taunted at school, Mrs. McLean said.
"In essence," de Naie explains, "under the status quo lease system, the life-giving waters of our stream ecosystems are redefined as an 'agricultural operations commodity" and our natural stream systems are redefined as a private "plantation plumbing system" adapted to deliver irrigation water to central Maui".
The seven moderately priced weathered wood cabins, each like a small wood-shingled house, offer contemporary comforts: private bathrooms with modern plumbing, handsome wood furniture and beds covered with pillows and thick wool blankets in handsome earth tones.
Despite the authorities' warnings that the old housing is unsafe, despite reassurances of a better life with modern conveniences like indoor plumbing and private bathrooms, most residents don't want to go.
With the housing crisis in London plumbing new depths, private rents continue to skyrocket, and the lack of social housing in the capital has become even more stark.
The United States, with a population a little over double Japan's, has 891,000.A system in which power lies in an amorphous swamp of bureaucracy and ruling party, each plumbed into the private sector, is unlikely to welcome scrutiny, and indeed secrecy is one of its notable features.
As Jo Becker reported in The Times, Paterno began negotiating to amend his contract and get a sweeter deal with luxury perks like use of the university's private jet, even as prosecutors plumbed the depths of Sandusky's pathological behavior.
I turned to Tom Perrotta, a novelist whose fiction has plumbed the hidden mess in private lives.
But paradoxically, it turns out that it's easier to plumb the mystery of the private Carson than it is to explain fully his mystique as a television star.
