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...producers accepting cash for the casual positioning of a particular brand of soda or make of sports car in the background of a scene. But now the concept has leaped off the screen into other areas of life, often catching consumers unaware. Celebrities such as Lauren Bacall and Kathleen Turner appear on talk shows and praise prescription drugs without disclosing that they have been paid by the drugmakers. Marketers give expensive sneakers, colognes or even cars to young trendsetters on college campuses, at the fringes of show biz or at hot nightclubs with the understanding that they will...
RESIGNED. KATHLEEN KEARNEY, 47, secretary of Florida's Department of Children and Families, who was criticized for her department's admission four months ago that it had failed to notice the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl, Rilya Wilson, for more than a year; in Miami. Appointed to replace her by Governor Jeb Bush was Jerry Regier, a conservative Christian who immediately drew fire for old ties to a group that wrote an essay in support of childhood spankings...
...Americana." And while the local press in the U.S. eat up Krispy Kreme store-opening stories, European media may consider a new doughnut shop in town as something less than newsworthy. "In Europe they may not have people sleeping in the streets waiting for the stores to open," says Kathleen Heaney, an analyst at Brean Murray & Co. And unlike Americans, who enjoy starting the day with sweet cakes, Europeans' breakfast tastes tend toward the savory. After all, a British breakfast tradition is a kipper, a smoked herring. Waugh insists it's wrong to consider Krispy Kreme doughnuts merely a morningtime...
Bush called the tragedy "heartbreaking." The public's immediate wrath will probably focus on Bush's handpicked DCF chief, Kathleen Kearney. Critics have called for her head since April, saying she focuses too much on whisking kids into foster care and too little on repairing her agency's bureaucracy. Kearney insists that cases like Jones' "are not widespread...
...Practically every house was Anglo-Indian," says Kathleen Hourigan, a matronly 55-year-old Irish-Indian. "There was a real togetherness. And there were lovely shows, picnics and dances. It was quite something." The farmers raised pigs and cattle and made mango jelly. There was a school, two hospitals, a clubhouse and endless rose gardens. Nothing it seemed, not even World War II, could touch McCluskieganj. And then, in 1947, came Indian independence. The community "just couldn't imagine a life without England," says McCluskieganj historian Captain David Cameron, 72. Some of the early pioneers had died and, without...