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...makes sense, then, except that senior gift isn't like Radcliffe Phonathon or even letters to Grammy: it gets personal. As a senior gift representative sat down next to me at launch the other day, I was suddenly face to face with the opposition and the worst part was he seemed nice. A relative stranger pitching a plan I couldn't cooperate with, to his credit the guy really made it sound appealing. When he finally looked up at me, expecting a little resistance but eventual capitulation, I was stuck. Did I ever say no to Secret Santa? Didn...
...Harvard is hoping to launch an initiative composed of Harvard and perhaps some other schools that will allow us direct access to information about sweatshop conditions," he said...
Before Gaither's murder, activists were planning a major national pro-gay offensive. From March 21 to March 27, the task force will launch its "Equality Begins at Home" campaign, with 250 grass-roots events in all 50 states aimed at passing anti-gay-bashing legislation. Says Conaty: "These laws reflect the conscience of a community and send an important message." The March events, says Urvashi Vaid, director of the task force's policy institute, will involve straight people concerned about neighbors denied basic human rights. Adds Vaid: "It's more than just a gay thing...
Book and magazine publishers often follow a hypocritical convention of burying the scoop deep in the text--to signal that they're not really about anything so vulgar and transitory as news. Then they launch a publicity barrage, invariably including a press release written in traditional journalistic "pyramid style"--that is, with the scoop on top, where it belongs. ("ALBRIGHT SAYS CLINTON NEVER TOUCHED HER. In her just published memoir, Woman of the World, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright denies reports in former White House press secretary Mike McCurry's recent memoir, The Soul of Discretion, that President Clinton...
This yen for privacy has prompted a band of start-ups to open an alternative apothecary in cyberspace. Last week Drugstore.com led by former Microsoft executive Peter Neupert, launched its virtual pharmacy and a selection of 15,000 health and beauty products to a rousing chorus of approval. A crush of visitors overwhelmed the site. Another admirer is online bookseller Amazon.com which said it had acquired 40% of the fledgling company. For Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the investment made sense. He has been on the prowl for other retail businesses that fit Amazon's amazing model, and the health...