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...what about the latter? What about industrial spies who steal trade secrets? Or the New York politician who used to brag about hearing former Governor Mario Cuomo's daily phone calls? Or the folks who eavesdrop on your baby monitor at midnight...
Working conditions in Guess's U.S. sewing shops may be no worse than in many other apparel factories in Los Angeles, although that's nothing to brag about. But the company has become a poster boy for a renewed antisweatshop movement. Meanwhile, moves are afoot in Congress to hold manufacturers liable for their contractors' labor violations, and a presidential task force on sweatshops will soon release its report. Will Guess's hard-nosed exodus blunt efforts to improve the plight of U.S. garmentworkers? Not likely. "We're not going to roll over and play dead," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney...
...best funeral homes. At one point, he says, Loewen boasted how he maneuvered John Wright to sell the Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home by threatening to build a brand-new home in his territory. Loewen demonstrated how Wright's hand shook so much the coffee sloshed from his cup. "To brag about being able to intimidate somebody is not evidence of a gentlemanly sensibility," O'Keefe says. "It told me he's an arrogant guy, that he's a hard pusher...
Extremists in both parties either narrowly escaped or were forced into the witness-protection program in order to win. California's loopy "B-1 Bob" Dornan, who loves to brag about having piloted every bomber in the Air Force fleet, was in a dead heat with Loretta Sanchez in his increasingly Hispanic Southern California district. Even Jesse Helms, North Carolina's conservative firebrand, started sounding more tolerant about abortion, touted his ability to direct federal aid to his state after Hurricane Fran left $5 billion in damage and boasted of his success in protecting the state's tobacco and peanut...
After flipping through pages long enough, I sometimes worry about the books suffering neglect. Who is reading the five miles of books Harvard's brochures brag about? For what purpose did their authors toil to write them? And who needs them all? Once in a while, I'll check out a book whose last date stamp is 17 June 1965 and wonder how many other books have sat on the shelves since Lyndon Johnson was president, waiting to be taken out or even given a second glance...