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Then there are the gloves. Cobalt-colored TRUE BLUES may not sound like a luxury item, but the impenetrable, powder-free vinyl gloves are moving out of restaurant kitchens and onto stylish drainboards everywhere, even at $10 a pair...
...Your item on the amount of money earned by TV's Judge Judy Sheindlin quipped that she is free from the duties of TV-show hosts and regular judges [People, Jan. 13]. Another thing she does not have to do is decide any cases of real significance. It is disturbing that a TV jurist is paid $25 million a year--or about the same as the combined salaries of 160 federal appeals-court judges. Vincent N. Palladino New York City...
...item on the increased use of screw tops instead of corks for wine bottles mistakenly referred to Bonny Doon's $130 Cabernet [Your Time, Dec. 30-Jan. 1]. Bonny Doon does not produce a Cabernet or any $130 wine. Our reference should have been to the PlumpJack Vineyard's $145 screw-top Cabernet...
...your item on efforts by universities to compel Christian student organizations to comply with nondiscrimination clauses and allow non-Christians to be leaders [Notebook, Jan. 13]: Will the schools also go after fraternities and sororities for their single-sex policies? Will colleges insist that Jewish groups be open to Muslim fundamentalists? This policy is a consequence of defining discrimination as making decisions on grounds of race, sex, religion, sexual orientation or ability. Everybody can see that exceptions need to be made. Any ideology-based organization must insist that its members and especially its leaders subscribe to its ideology; otherwise...
...That was the great triumph of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,” she said. “It was the largest single item in our last capital campaign…which has made it possible for us to have a substantial increase in the generosity of the financial aid program...