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...hypocritical we are! We have long snickered at some neighboring countries in South America as banana republics. But now, between PAC money for Congress and solicited campaign gifts virtually being left on the nightstand in the Lincoln Bedroom by Clinton's "friends," we can truly say favors and legislation are for sale in the U.S. MARTIN JANSEN Agoura Hills, California...
Virtually no one with a checkbook was turned away from Bill Clinton's fund-raising party--not convicted felons, not Buddhist monks bearing someone else's money, not even a Russian mobster. But few of them felt the need to be quite as discreet as Carl Lindner, the banana king who had a bundle to drop in the last election...
...ruling in Lindner's favor. When that is made final, Lindner stands to gain millions in revenues from new sales in Europe--a good return on the $2 million in soft money that he and his firms have handed both parties since 1990. Republicans too have supported Lindner's banana crusade. (Lindner and Kantor declined to comment...
...arrived here I got the sense that everybody was having sex or expected to have sex; I reached this conclusion from one of our mandatory study breaks. In one of my most embarrassing moments here, I was chosen by a Peer Contraceptive Counselor to put a condom on a banana and demonstrate the proper way to place a condom on the penis. Although the motivation underlying this exercise was positive (if you're having sex, use a condom), the message was ambiguous. Virgins like myself were told that a lot of our classmates were having sex and we probably would...
...Banana Republic? Yes. If a growing number of companies have their way, there will be a lot more memories like that. Retail chains are working hard to link their brands with the music younger customers want to hear. In recent years the Gap, Banana Republic, Victoria's Secret, the Pottery Barn and others have produced their own CDs and sold them at their checkout counters. Last week a new player was announced: Philip Morris, the world's largest cigarette maker...