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...Andalus," which runs through Sept. 27, is the first large-scale attempt to supply American art lovers with a sense of this vanished and brilliant culture. Given the ignorant animus against the Arab world in America, it is a valuable show, and its massive catalog is the best introduction to Spanish Islamic civilization ever set before a general audience by a museum. If the show itself, with its 120-some items, seems a little thin to the casual eye, this is due to the extreme paucity of works of art that have come down to us from the Hispano-Islamic...
Ronald Dunham -- street name Strike -- is their foreman. Or scoutmaster, or baby-sitter; one of his clockers, Horace, 13, spends his time leafing wistfully through a catalog of kids' toys. Strike is only 19 himself, a scrawny fellow with a stutter and a bleeding ulcer that he treats with vanilla Yoo-Hoo. But he's smart; smart enough to know not to wear gold, not to trust anyone, not to get greedy and not to do product, because cocaine messes you up. He has $21,000 in cash stored around town, and he tells himself that this is his leaving...
Attention, catalog shoppers: No new sales taxes. For now. Thrifty consumers who bought more than $183 billion worth of merchandise by mail last year welcomed last week's Supreme Court decision not to allow state taxation of out-of-state mail-order sales. But in rebuffing North Dakota's effort to collect a use tax from the Quill Corp. of Lincolnshire, Ill., the nation's largest mail-order office-product supplier, the high court punted the issue back to Congress and cleared the way for future legislative action authorizing states to impose use taxes on out-of-state consumers...
...government lobby claims that this would add $3 billion to their coffers this year. If permitted, California could have raked in $417.8 million in mail-order sales taxes last year alone. But this is a tough sell in an election year when jittery lawmakers get plenty of mail from catalog-shopping constituents. As Representative Byron Dorgan of North Dakota put it, "The large catalog companies have the ability -- and they've done it in the past -- to wallpaper the Congress with millions of postcards." Direct mail, after all, is their business...
...will not be long before under-graduates intheir rooms and faculty in their offices can tapinto the [library] card catalog and a whole rangeof information," says Rudenstine.Crimson File PhotoStudents at work in the current ScienceCenter computer room...