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...council finally voted to re-file the item, which has been on the unfinished business agenda since January...
...school friends called me--it was on to the sleeker, more sophisticated Elizabeth. My new standard-issue GTE Visa bought me a tastefully simple Gap wardrobe to replace the brighter colors of my more attention-getting high school garb. And I brought absolutely everything I owned to school. Every item of clothing, every photograph, every handy gadget, every poster and wall sign, because the truth is that I was terrified I wouldn't fit in. I had to have with me every possible option available so I could craft the Elizabeth I'd present to the Harvard world...
...split dramatically over every item on the agenda: Abortion, gay rights, gun control, hate crime laws, capital punishment, affirmative action, Elian Gonzalez. And so on. Nothing is orthodox or unorthodox anymore. We are all fist-shaking schismatics. Cultural pluralism gets wistful for certitudes. Inside every fox, there's a hedgehog ranting. Let me count some of the ways: Last week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) demonstrated at the CBS offices in New York. They said they were angry because contestants on the CBS game show "Survivor" were roasting and eating rats. "RATS HAVE RIGHTS," the placards said...
...last Christmas, has been spreading east. "We started carrying the Razor in our catalog last August with moderate interest," says Tony Farrell, a senior vice president for the Sharper Image. "In early February, they began flying out of our store in Honolulu." Now the Razor is the top-selling item in many of the chain's U.S. outlets...
...manners). There is even evidence that rudeness may be good for business. Inspired by the success of restaurants and nightclubs at which customers are treated so rudely that they offer the staff bribes to ward off insult, many industries have learned to sell ordinary service as a luxury item. Such marketing concepts as first-class travel, executive floors in hotels, and personal shoppers in stores are based on the idea that decent treatment and efficient service are not what the ordinary customer should expect...