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Back in the days when men drank dry martinis and smoked unfiltered cigarettes with abandon, ogling the scantily clad, buxom Bunnies at the Playboy Club was a popular pastime. Times have changed. Playboy last week announced that when its flagship New York City club reopens in November, the employees will include male waiters, dubbed Rabbits. In an effort to lure female patrons, the ! company (fiscal 1985 sales: $192 million) hopes to hire "attractive and athletically built" men. Company officials refuse to say how the Rabbits will be dressed but insist that they will keep their pants on. Among the current...
...high time that the College abandon its indifference. It is also high time for the Women's Studies Committee to demand the attention and the funding which it requires to be effective...
...casualty insurance companies say they have no choice but to hike rates because they are scrambling to recover from $3.8 billion in red ink last year. Some of the current losses are the result of a six-year rate war in which most insurers slashed premiums with competitive abandon. But a greater problem is the growing number and size of personal-injury lawsuits. Says Rudolph F. Landolt, president of Chicago's Kemper Group of Insurance Companies: "You have an accident, and everyone involved gets sued. We live in litigious times." Insurance companies blame courts for being far too generous...
...high time that the College abandon its indifference. It is also high time for the Women's Studies Committee to demand the attention and the funding which it requires to be effective...
...high time that the College abandon its indifference. It is also high time for the Women's Studies Committee to demand the attention and the funding which it requires to be effective...