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Though he has taken pains to construct his literary persona -- a hard- drinking, drug-taking, fast-driving, womanizing hero -- this red-meat kind of guy has mellowed. He still chain-smokes Petit Nobel cigars, but he's given up cocaine and butter, and he even passes up cheeseburgers for chicken sandwiches. "P.J.'s image of himself is probably quite different from the public's perception of him," says friend Denis Boyles. "He might want to appear a bad boy, but I think the way he'd like to appear, sometime in his life, is as a Victorian gentleman." Readers should...
...jobs. Such exchanges create opportunities for black marketeers, who have taken advantage of the new "mainland fever" sweeping the acquisitive Taiwanese. Black-market deals, particularly for pelts, can be conducted only through a series of middlemen. Each person provides an introduction to the next link in the human chain, then extracts a fee for the service. Ultimately the Taiwanese meet the Chinese on the muddy, gray waters of the Taiwan Strait. Often the pelts, along with Chinese antiques and traditional medicines, are traded by fishermen for Taiwanese electronics and consumer goods. The practice is so universal that when members...
...psychology is shaking many merchants to their roots. Traditional department stores ranging from Saks Fifth Avenue to Neiman Marcus have suffered from poor business as customers flock to discounters and back- to-basics stores, notably the Limited, the Gap, Wal-Mart and K Mart. The 75-store Sharper Image chain, which made its reputation in the '80s with high- tech gadgets, has been blurring its image to include more low-cost, practical goods. Example: a $19.95 aluminum-can crusher for recyclers...
...commissioner reacted to a similar situation in 1985, when officers were accused of torturing a suspect with electric "stun guns." After first accepting his own responsibility, Commissioner Benjamin Ward summoned 327 senior officers to police headquarters in lower Manhattan. He read them the riot act, then fired the entire chain of command involved in the incident -- from a lieutenant at the offending precinct to the department's third-ranking official, the chief of patrol. "I didn't consult with the mayor or the district attorney, or anyone," says Ward. "I just acted...
Imagine places where it is considered racist to speak of the rights of the individual when they conflict with the community's prevailing opinion. Where it is taboo to debate the moral fitness of homosexuals as parents, and sexist to order a Domino's pizza because the chain's chairman donates money to an antiabortion group. Imagine institutions that insist they absolutely defend free speech but punish the airing of distasteful views by labeling them unacceptable "behavior" instead of words -- and then expel the perpetrators...