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...Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] has rightly decided to continue its economic boycott of the state. Ironically, when contrasted with the "flexibility" of the state's lawmakers (both sides have altered their original stances in order to support the compromise), the NAACP ends up looking like a bunch knee-jerk liberals too stubborn to change their minds. Ironically, the fact that the NAACP is the only organization with sufficient moral backbone to remain consistent might work against it in the media spotlight. The American public must remember that a sign that in the past years has been consistently used...
...women their own age. It just so happens none of them are famous. PAUL MCCARTNEY, 57, whose wife Linda died nearly two years ago, confirmed last week that he's "an item" with former swimwear model HEATHER MILLS. The 32-year-old Mills lost her left leg below the knee when she was run over by a London motorcycle cop in 1993; she subsequently dropped modeling to become an advocate for land-mine victims. "She's a very impressive woman," said Sir Paul. "We've done charity work together, and we've grown close." Meanwhile--fatwa be damned--SALMAN RUSHDIE...
RETIRED. DAN MARINO, 38, Miami Dolphins quarterback who holds NFL records for the most touchdown passes, passing yards and completions; after 17 years and six knee operations; in Davie, Fla. (see Appreciation below...
...partly a knee-jerk reaction to higher rates. But equally important is the massive portfolio shift from old-economy stocks to new-economy stocks that I wrote about last week. Investors are dumping anything that hasn't done well to chase high-flying tech stocks. Financial-services mutual funds are getting hit with redemptions; fund managers are selling bank stocks to pay off departing shareholders...
...similarly unjust to provide opportunities for leaves of absence, flextime and telecommuting exclusively on the basis of parental status and on the assumption that the concerns of parents are inherently more deserving than those of the childless. And most intelligent readers will share her revulsion at the knee-jerk family-fawning rhetoric of politicians on the left and the right...