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...episode (what Jerry earns) and settled for $600,000 for next season's 22 episodes (up from $160,000 a show). Apart from the unquantifiable attributes--timing, delivery, physical funniness--what exactly do you have to do to earn that kind of dough? Herewith, stats of last week's discount-priced program...
...their youngest child is 12 weeks old." Did we read that correctly? Forget about the mother's regaining her strength or ensuring her child's well-being by breast feeding; forget about the critical mother-child bonding process. Let's just get that woman behind the counter of the discount store (where she will earn less than the licensed child-care provider she'll require). TRACY AND ELIZABETH HODSON Alameda, Calif...
Several other dry cleaners offer similar deals. At Top Cleaners on Cambridge Street and Rite-Way Dry Cleaners near the Quad, free storage awaits those who pay for dry cleaning. Rite-Way even gives a 10 percent discount to ID wielding Harvard students...
Zoeller soon paid a price for saying openly what many others were thinking secretly. K Mart, the discount chain with a big African-American clientele, unceremoniously dumped him as the sponsor of a line of golf clothing and equipment, and he abjectly withdrew from the Greater Greensboro Open tournament. "People who know me know I'm a jokester. I just didn't deliver the line well," Zoeller tearfully explained. But his real crime was not, as he and his defenders seem to think, merely a distasteful breach of racial etiquette or an inept attempt at humor. The real crime...
Most book clubs, however, are informal, private affairs, chautauquas in a bottle. Sometimes aided by bookstore "liaisons," who often sell them books at a discount and may even provide a meeting space, these do-it-yourself salons offer a literary booster shot for people nostalgic for dorm-room bull sessions. Laura Srebnik, 42, is a New York City policy analyst whose group meets once a month. "I love it," she says. "I believe you have to set up situations where you can think about larger principles." A high-powered book club in Washington, started by Kenneth Brody, the former president...