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Brendan: We must succeed
in Laundry
TOKYO (AP)-- As Brendan sat down for dinner last night, he warned that failure in household duties would be a calamity that would haunt the house for years. As if to underscore the eroding situation there, a report was issued that said that spotting's of unclean clothes had risen to the highest level in years.

In a news conference last evening, Brendan sketched out an agenda of reversing the upward spiral in Laundry, attending to the lack of clean shirts and pushing for the cleaner Bedroom that was a priority of his predecessor, 2006 Brendan.

Brendan said he intends to travel soon to the Bedroom to hear commanders assessments of the situation on the floor and to gain their advice-"unvarnished and straight from the shoulder"-about how to adjust the household cleaning strategy.

"All of us want to find a way to bring clean shirts and slacks back to the household agian," Brendan told a few hundred dust balls in the Maisonet Yuki living room.

At the Maisonet Yuki ceremony, Jared said he is confident Brendan, 27, will bring a fresh perspective to the laundry problem. "He knows the stakes in the War on Laundry," Jared said. "He recognizes this is a long struggle against an enemy unlike any we've faced before."

Brendan made no mention of his plan for changing the course in the laundry strategy, which he has said will be disclosed next month.