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...speak, we don't know what they do think--but kids plainly love Teletubbies. About 2 million people in Britain have watched it daily since its launch last year; it has been sold to 22 countries; and since premiering on PBS in April, it has swiftly landed alongside Barney and Sesame Street in the top five of the system's kids' shows...
Sprint isn't alone on the welfare-to-work bandwagon. Of the top 100 U.S. companies, 34 have programs, and 13 more are planning them. Executives of such blue chips as United Airlines and Salomon Smith Barney were at the White House this spring toasting President Clinton's one-year-old Welfare to Work Partnership and saying their welfare hires had better retention rates than workers found from other sources. Why the sudden success? There's the economy, which has made employers so desperate that some are hiring convicts to work in prison. And there's welfare reform, which...
SEPARATING. Massachusetts Congressman BARNEY FRANK, 58, and his partner of more than 10 years, HERB MOSES, 41, formerly an executive at the Federal National Mortgage Association...
...THIS NECESSARY? The rich are more paranoid than the rest of us, which may be why Barney's department store in New York City is selling a $595 coat, left, equipped with a pocket lined with a copper-polyamide-polyurethane shield that protects the owner from harmful cellular-phone emissions. It may also explain why clients of Meurice Dry Cleaners (also in New York) can FedEx their clothes from anywhere in the world so Meurice can clean and FedEx them right back. Cost to send and clean a suede jacket? About $150. (The service has clients as far away...
Impressive, but not unique. Some of the No. 1 hits of the past were also pretty good, and perhaps even better than Seinfeld. The Andy Griffith Show, for example, achieved comedic moments of unmatched beauty. These usually came in the loping conversations between Andy and Barney in the sheriff's office, exchanges with a slow pace and subdued hilarity that would be impossible to offer on television today. Others would cite All in the Family or Cheers or Cosby as series that were more skillful and enjoyable than Seinfeld. And while Seinfeld should be credited for going...