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...sobs that shook Michael Milken in Manhattan federal court last week punctuated the most dizzying fall from power in modern Wall Street history. They came as federal Judge Kimba Wood sentenced the financial wizard, whose junk bonds fueled the epic 1980s takeover wars, to 10 years in prison. Said the tearful felon: "What I did violated not just the law but all of my principles and values, and I will regret it for the rest of my life. I am truly sorry...
...first worry: the Time Inc. Magazine Co. is one of the largest direct- mail generators in the world. Since the proliferation of what its detractors call junk mail is clearly controversial, why call attention to a practice in which our parent company is deeply engaged...
...editors weighed these concerns, and then acted in a TIME-honored way. They ignored them. The phenomenon of the amazing growth of junk mail is a large, interesting and significant story. Yes, as is so often the case in this era of large, diverse communications companies, the discussion strikes close to home, but editors must go about their business. That's what our co-founder, Henry Luce, had in mind when he decreed decades ago that we should maintain a separation of "church" (the editorial side of the magazine) and "state" (the business side). So our editors, with what...
BUSINESS: Dress it up as direct mail or denounce it as junk, Americans love the wash of third-class tidings as much as they say they hate...
...past year, 63.7 billion pieces of third-class mail landed in mailboxes across America. Where does it all come from? How did they get your name? And how can you curb it? -- Fax and phone solicitations: the newest generation of junk. -- Fighting recession blues by giving greed another chance. -- A Harlem bank failure wounds local pride...