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...layoffs during the previous 12 months. In the latest survey, companies of this size laid off an average of 24 workers per firm. "Small companies are less likely to downsize than larger ones," says Eric Greenberg, an A.M.A. editor who compiled the report. "But when they do bite the bullet, they bite it hard...
...grand siecle chateaus. Philosophy is still as much in fashion as fashion is the ultimate philosophy. Together with modern farms, a medieval patchwork of agriculture still yields its plenty to cordon bleu tables in a country better prepared for the 21st century than most -- a land crisscrossed by bullet trains, a nuclear-electric power grid, Airbus jetliners and satellites borne aloft in Ariane rockets...
...test. A team of scientists is planning to exhume the remains of Carl A. Weiss, the doctor who is believed to have assassinated Senator Huey Long of Louisiana back in 1935. Weiss was gunned down at the scene by Long's bodyguards. By analyzing the angles of the bullet holes, the scientists may be able to show that the guards shot Long and killed Weiss to cover their crime. Whether any new light can be shed on that issue by examining a 56-year-old corpse remains unclear. Is there no rest for the dead...
WITHOUT WARNING: THE JAMES BRADY STORY (HBO, June 20, 24). Beau Bridges brings grit and not too much sentimentality to the role of President Reagan's former press secretary, who was felled by a bullet meant for the President, and is now the symbolic leader of the nation's gun-control movement. The film's camp highlight, though, is Bryan Clark's hyperkinetic impersonation of Reagan...
...carry. But not since | Fatal Attraction has a movie provoked such table-pounding discussions between men and women. Along partisan lines, men attack the movie as a male-bashing feminist screed, in which they are portrayed as leering, overbearing, violent swine who deserve what they get, from a bullet in the heart to being stuffed in a trunk. Women cheer the movie because it finally turns the tables on Hollywood, which has been too busy making movies about bimbos, prostitutes, vipers and bitches and glamourizing the misogynists who kill them to make a movie like Thelma & Louise...