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Responding to an article in The Boston Globe, the council condemned a planned promotion at HMV which would have placed Madonna's new book, Sex, on a makeshift altar, where for a $3 donation to AIDS research, customers over 18 could look through the book. People dressed as nuns and priests would have collected the donations...
...project. As assistant city manager Rick Dodge notes, in what sounds like a bow to Clintonomics: "Cities that are coming out of the recession are cities investing in the future." But this brave leap seemed to be over a cliff. Three times the majors took St. Pete to the altar, and three times the town was jilted: first with the Chicago White Sox, then with a prospective expansion team that went to Miami, then with the Seattle Mariners. Says local booster Jack Critchfield: "We've been used as a nuclear threat to other communities to make them give teams whatever...
...progressive on some fronts: it had the first woman pilot and astronaut, and has named five female admirals. The Air Force, however, shines by comparison; 97% of its jobs are open to women, as compared with 59% in the Navy. In the Air Force culture, all worship at the altar of technology; she who understands the newest toys largely need not fear harassment...
...with dreams and doubts, great talents and ordinary frailties -- get to be people like them." That is, what does it take to create a candidate so driven in his pursuit of the White House that he jettisons family, friends, any semblance of privacy or normal human existence on the altar of naked ambition...
Comps let you meet people who share your interests, particularly upperclass students, who you might otherwise never meet: the administration, in its constant bowing to the altar of tradition, does its best to isolate first-years from the rest of the college...