Word: browne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lunch hour in downtown Tampa, Fla., and a team of paid petitioners is doing a brisk business signing up opponents of affirmative action. "White men love it," Gloria Brown, the bubbly grandmother heading up the petitioners, says with a laugh. "They might already have walked past me, but when I tell them it's anti-affirmative action, they come back and sign." But Brown is also getting plenty of signatures from white women, Hispanics and blacks...
...real winters in New York, the snow was so deep one night that I left my car at the train station and walked home. No cabs were running. Not a snowplow in sight. Even the mailman had bagged it. The street was perfectly silent--but for a familiar boxy, brown truck rumbling my way sporting the initials U P S. There, I recall thinking, is a stock to own--if only UPS shares traded publicly...
Should you buy UPS when it goes public? Big Brown is a great company that's been growing earnings steadily through cost cutting and world expansion. It's getting an incremental boost from the Internet. In the second quarter, reported last Thursday, its income jumped 28%, and the company forecast "a significant increase" in this holiday season's e-commerce. Last year UPS delivered 3 billion packages in 200 countries, earning $1.7 billion on sales of $24.8 billion--way bigger numbers than FedEx's. And there's no place in the U.S. that UPS doesn't go. If e-commerce...
...river that runs through Breena Clarke's accomplished first novel, River, Cross My Heart (Little, Brown; 245 pages; $23), is the sluggish brown Potomac, benevolent on the surface but treacherous beneath. Along with other young African Americans from their Georgetown neighborhood, Johnnie Mae Bynum and her sister Clara are forced to use the river as a swimming hole owing to a race ban at their local pool. It's the 1920s, and the girls are part of a steady migration from the fields of the rural South to the streets of bustling Washington. Things are supposed to be better there...
Wailing like Aretha, sweating like James Brown, the Whitney Houston who took the stage July 17 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia was not the singer you've come to know from her recorded work; this Houston was deeper, tougher, feistier. Her voice is not as bottled-water pure as it once was, but it's more real now, breaking on the high notes, letting emotion spill out. She belted out her hits, of course--I Will Always Love You, You Give Good Love--but also soared through a gospel medley that took the crowd higher...