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Dozens of Alabama Baptist ministers are upset over Kmart's decision to stay open on Easter Sunday for the first time in the company's history. The ministers contend the discount chain is exploiting a religious holiday to make money. Some 35 ministers wrote to the Troy, Mich.-based retailer and two store managers in Dothan, Ala., urging Kmart to reconsider. Kmart said its employees will be working short Easter shifts on a voluntary basis and that the company is staying open to meet the needs of customers...
DIED. JAMES L. "BUD" WALTON, 73, billionaire who with his older brother Sam opened the single store in 1962 that eventually grew into the Wal-Mart discount chain, the largest retailer in the country; following surgery for a stomach aneurysm; in Little Rock, Arkansas...
...discount the importance of science is even more preposterous. Science's project is revealing the truth that is often hidden from out bare perceptions. in stark contrast, postmodernism's project consists in destroying the very concept of objectivity and truth. And for post-modernism to complete its project, science has to be discarded as having any claim on truth and objectivity...
...Harvard last week, under the most garish lights outside a discount-store dressing room and stopping to take deep breaths and frequent sips of water, she either gave an Oscar-worthy rendition of a person with stage fright or she actually had it. (Who wouldn't? Everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Mario Cuomo has preceded her to the podium of the Institute of Politics.) She delivered a TelePrompTed broadside at her critics, naming names (Rush, Newt, Jesse--Helms, not Jackson--and the editor of the New Republic). She denounced the politicians and media who seduce and then turn on performers...
...Discount Records assistant manager Bob Matros says the large music store chains that have opened in the Square have hurt his business as well...