And above a built-in desk and work cabinets galore are her framed embroideries.
A friend, Michael Bailey, 60, an out-of-work cabinet maker from Marietta, Georgia, said he sometimes slept on subway trains, to keep warm.
But love is certainly the appropriate word – Forrest describes a horse she is about to have a lesson on: "She was also beautiful, the glossy black of a lacquer-work cabinet, polished and nourished till the highlights of her coat were white under the barn light".
For all its faults, the present system works: cabinet ministers requiring additional resources compete for them against colleagues.
As the system now works, cabinet positions get portioned out to confessional power blocs, which then horse trade over which bloc gets which ministries.
Today, Mr. Putin has taken to openly casting aspersions on the work of cabinet ministers, who are Mr. Medvedev's subordinates.
Those egalitarian Swedes ReprintsJerzy Buzek, the beleaguered prime minister, in a move that confounded many constitutionalists (not to mention Mr Kwasniewski), then refused to accept the resignations, and the ministers have continued to "work in cabinet" to resolve the crisis.
On Friday, Mr. Bush instructed Mr. Card to work with cabinet secretaries and senior intelligence and law-enforcement officials to review the recommendations and report back as soon as possible with their advice about how to proceed.
PML-N officials said he was holding talks with some independent MPs to work out cabinet positions.
"However, the secretary of state, having attended Cobra this morning, said he would work with cabinet colleagues to make resources available".
In her resignation letter to the prime minister, Mrs Miller said she was "immensely proud" of her work in cabinet, including "putting in place the legislation to enable all couples to have the opportunity to marry regardless of their sexuality".
