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...Everything I've done in this department has been done by the rules," said Dowling. "I hired these people. I certainly didn't hire them to harass them," he said...
...black rage was directed at the police force. Many rioters specifically targeted Asian-owned businesses. Relations between the black and Asian communities have been tense for years, mainly because of a perception that Korean merchants have been exploiting poor neighborhoods by establishing shops in ghetto areas while refusing to hire blacks to work in them. A particularly bitter episode occurred last year when grocer Soon Ja Du was convicted of killing 15-year-old Latasha Harlins, whom she accused of stealing a $1.79 bottle of orange juice. Although an in-store video camera clearly showed that Du had shot Harlins...
Ferragamo was both couturier and courtier. The exhibition features many pictures of the natty shoemaker on bended knee, cradling the foot of one of his glamorous customers, like Sophia Loren, the Duchess of Windsor (who, he said, had perfect feet) and Ava Gardner. He was an artist for hire who worked for the new royalty of the 20th century: movie stars and socialites. Such clients tested his ingenuity. To fulfill the request of an Indian princess, he once fabricated a shoe of hummingbird feathers. But Ferragamo asserted that he was designing shoes not for the personality of the customer...
...burden on business, especially small business, is worse. Many sole proprietors find they need to buy computers or hire accountants to comply with irs record-keeping requirements for inventory. Some small businesses are required to deposit withholding taxes for their employees as often as eight times a month. One sentence in a tax instruction used by many small-business owners runs 436 words -- longer than the Gettysburg Address...
...presidential candidate John Anderson managed to qualify everywhere even though he had far less money than Perot has. Anderson prompted a 1983 federal court decision that now makes it difficult for states to bar ballot access unreasonably. Thus, it is hard to believe that Perot -- with the resources to hire the best election lawyers in the nation -- will fail in his quest...