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True enough, bathing suits can do more for you today than they ever could. Only a couple of years ago, they were cut so high in the thighs that even the glammest gals approached the water awkwardly, bent over and tugging at their crotches. This year, mercifully, the suits are longer around the thighs and cunningly fortified with underwire bras and invisible tummy-flattening devices. The more fiercely constructed ones can probably swim without an occupant...
Certainly, second wives, bent on protecting their own brood, have more moral authority than the men who have already left one brood behind. But even they may not be any match for market forces. New York City is considering a proposal from investment bankers at Morgan Stanley to get immediate payments to first families by selling high-interest bonds based on the assets of deadbeat parents. The Mommy-munis would be backed by the full force of the child-support-collection apparatus...
...usually wins because Branson can do the mundane spectacularly well and because he has an almost unerring ability to connect with consumers, particularly younger ones. Those business instincts are matched by an ability to motivate people who work for him. And who wouldn't want to--Branson seems hell-bent on making sure that everybody, but everybody, is having as much...
...Hillary Clinton," was how G.O.P. Senator Alfonse D'Amato responded to reports of his dealings with Stratton Oakmont Inc., a New York brokerage that has drawn ongoing scrutiny for alleged securities violations. But then last week a Securities and Exchange Commission report concluded that the brokerage had bent its own rules to secure D'Amato shares in a hot new computer stock in 1993 that netted him a $37,125 profit in a single day. New shares are often doled out by brokerages to favored customers before the rest of the public gets a chance. That makes comparisons...
...pragmatic bent of our society strives to place a value on knowledge, to demand that theory come to the service of praxis. But Harvard's liberal arts curriculum denies this point of view, arguing that the value of an education does not lie solely in the practical skills one takes away from...