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...wishes to hold itself up as the light of freedom and civil rights, it must maintain moral principles in all situations. Punishment of the soldiers directly involved in the Abu Ghraib abuse is pure hypocrisy if we do not also bring to justice everyone in the military chain of command, as high up as necessary. The U.S.'s standing in the world community requires this. Michaelene Pendleton Moab...
...negative counterattack, challenging both Miller's heritage, by making an issue of its foreign ownership, and its manliness, by dismissing Miller Lite as the "queen of carbs." "That's a very macho accusation against a brand that has been giving them a royal shellacking," said Adami, a hard-swearing chain smoker, in a recent speech...
...M.B.A. at Harvard when a doctor discovered a malignant melanoma on his shoulder. Hughes underwent surgery and has been cancer-free since. He moved on to a high-powered Wall Street career at Citicorp, where he worked on the $105 million leveraged buyout of the Piggly Wiggly supermarket chain and the $200 million acquisition of Prince Sports Group from Unilever. Seven years after his health scare, Hughes got the entrepreneurial itch. He decided to go out on his own--and help people in the process...
...habit of making resolutions is itself a paradox: if we had the discipline to keep them, we probably wouldn't need to make many in the first place. But goals are different, not a heavy chain but a bright challenge, better suited to summer because both are finite. Resolutions are forever--you're not supposed to gain weight, start smoking or live off your Visa card ever again. Summer goals last only as long as it takes to meet them and then set the next one--run a 6-min. mile, reread all of Jane Austen by Labor Day, master...
DIED. AL LAPIN JR., 76, entrepreneurial coffee-cart operator who, with his younger brother Jerry, co-founded the chalet-style International House of Pancakes chain of restaurants; of cancer; in Los Angeles. He built the first blue-roofed IHOP in Los Angeles in 1958 and turned the business into a $40 million conglomerate by 1970. But three years later, a recession and tightened credit forced him to sell his stake for a mere...