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...Radcliffe T-shirt, a. k. a. the laundry shirt, is something for which we at Dartboard feel truly grateful. While we would, of course, never be so lax in our housekeeping as to need a laundry shirt, we praise Radcliffe for dramatically curtailing the number of topless appearances in class...
...better if it had tried. To promote Dilbert's World-Totally Nuts, its newest ice cream, the company organized an April Fools' Day promotion whereby ticket holders on certain flights got the average price of a ticket back. And who should rock up as the last passenger for the LAX-to-SFO flight but WILLIAM HURT. Yes, William Hurt, the star who looks most like Dilbert! At first he had to be coaxed into going over to the Dilbert cubicle to accept his prize. But as soon as he realized he was being given a check for $120, Hurt--without...
...possible that the greatest presidents in American history have been just as morally lax as Clinton appears to be when it comes to women and money, and that the only difference in the 1990s is that we find out about the undersides of our presidents immediately, instead of decades after the fact. Yet this analysis is too simple; it is equally fair to say that the demands put upon politicians today, particularly in the area of fundraising, beckon increasing levels of whoredom...
Experts routinely warn companies not to get caught with lax policies, which can enrage juries and inflate settlement costs. Consultants' on-site training is usually straightforward: if what you're thinking even vaguely involves sex, keep it to yourself. Ballard poses hypotheticals such as, What if someone gets the Victoria's Secret catalog at work? "If someone makes a comment about that, you get rid of it," she says. Parallax, her company based in Santa Monica, Calif., teaches that one complaint is enough to change office policy--and such advice is becoming the standard in business schools and financial newspapers...
Both undergraduates and tutors agree thatstudents are often too lax about locking theirdoors, even after last Thursday's incident...