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...know, I know. Rough life. But Meghan is actually one of the lucky ones. And I'm not talking about her Harvard education. I'm not even talking about her swank office, complete with a brand-new fridge and walls that were custom-built according to her specifications. Meghan is lucky because she's thinking about quitting, after only a week. See, she hates her boss...
...that's what we used to do.'" Such experiences have persuaded Jarvis to keep computers out of his own company, Accelerated Business Forms, a 14-employee manufacturer of business documents. "If you've got any kind of repetitive operations, a computer is perfect," he says, "but if you handle custom orders, a computer does more harm than good...
...Will the 13 most guilty parties--true representatives of America's twisted culture--please rise? President Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Kenneth Starr, Linda Tripp and the nine robed Justices of the Supreme Court, you are hereby sentenced to confinement, together, for one year in a single room of the old Custom House in Salem, Mass., where, completely disrobed, you shall read and discuss these four works: The Scarlet Letter, Notes from the Underground, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex and Civilization and Its Discontents. BERT BENDER Tempe, Ariz...
...once since Pakistan became a nation 51 years ago has this noisy brandishing of faith ever worked to bolster the leader's popularity. Now, with Pakistan ostracized after its nuclear tests and on the edge of economic collapse, Prime Minister Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif is reviving the old custom of trying to make the Islamic Republic of Pakistan even more Islamic than it already...
...Hurricane Andrew, officially the costliest hurricane on record with damage, in today's dollars, of $35.5 billion, dropped to second place. The first was a Category 4 hurricane (wind speeds above 130 m.p.h.) that struck southeast Florida in 1926 and skipped into Alabama. (It has no name because the custom of naming storms began only in the early '50s.) If that storm took the same path today, it would cause damage totaling $77.5 billion. Of the 10 costliest hurricanes of the century, nine occurred before 1970. The only recent hurricane to make Pielke's and Landsea's Top-10 list...