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...dissidents are most vocal about a corporate-expansion strategy that they claim has flooded some markets with stores. "I can put up with a Burger King but not with another McDonald's down the road," says Bob Srygley, a consortium member based in Monticello, Ark. Complains LuAnn Perez, whose store on Route 50 in Cameron Park, Calif., is flanked by others: "Business was great until four other McDonald's were built between Sacramento and us." She and her husband are suing the company over the sale of their business...
...stepped up to play the same role for Michael Dukakis, an assignment that put her in contact with then Ark. governor Bill Clinton, who came to Boston to help Dukakis with the presidential debates...
...becoming "a major player in the turtle trade." Not far away, as Mike Bryan tells us in Uneasy Rider: The Interstate Way of Knowledge (Knopf; 349 pages; $25), is Phil ("Shorty") Kendrick, a former egg deliverer who, having seen Jesus, is planning a 450-ft. model of Noah's ark. So far his kingdom extends mostly to a 14-year-old camel he drags around for cameos in Easter pageants...
...Lucas takes seriously the notion that entertainers have an obligation to promote positive moral values in their work. He talks earnestly about what artists "teach" with their creations--and with a little prodding he even criticizes himself for the scene played for laughs in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indiana Jones drops his bullwhip and casually guns down an Arab swordsman. In fact, one of the changes to Star Wars modifies a gratuitously violent encounter in the cantina scene during which Han Solo shoots one of his creditors, a green anteater-like thing named Greedo. In the new version...
...personal side of Ozment, 57, has included a childhood in Camden, Ark., two years at the University of Arkansas on a football scholarship and then a transfer ("I got beat up pretty bad," he says of his football experiences) to the smaller Hendrix College, also in Arkansas...