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...down its seniority system and open the way to more stylish writing. In later years, however, his reign became autocratic and oppressive--creating a now legendary "climate of fear" that the newspaper is still trying to shake off. Rosenthal's successor as executive editor, Max Frankel, tried diligently to lighten the mood and loosen up the front page, with more life-style and culture stories...
This year's "lighten up" award goes to Barbara Ehrenreich for her column "What a Cute Universe You Have!" [ESSAY, Aug. 25]. In it she slams the Pathfinder team for giving rocks on Mars cute names and Disney for making a cartoon that is funny. Offhand I would say that anyone who can land a robot on Mars deserves to name the rocks whatever he wants. It's O.K. for animated films to be funny. And Ehrenreich's sense of wonder and awe at the mysteries of life must be extremely fragile and shallow if it can be spoiled...
...when the market finally blows, you can be sure it'll take the clothes off our backs. The only way to hang onto your threads is to lighten up on stocks now and sell a little more every time the Dow notches a few hundred points higher. That's heresy in today's stock-crazed world. It could mean missing the better part of a huge rally still to come. So no one is going to do it. Heck, we're still throwing $20 billion a month into stock mutual funds. The inflows haven't even slowed, much less stopped...
CASTELLON DE LA PLANA, Spain: Basta, already. Matadors are threatening to shed their traje de luces, turn in their capes and leave the bulls alone if the Spanish government doesn't lighten regulations in the ring. The bullfighters are threatening a walkout over current regulations that say a breeder faces fines of up to $65,000 if examinations after the fight show that they have shaved their bull's horns. Shaved horns skew a bull's ability to estimate distances and makes them more vulnerable to the sword. But union leaders say such scrutiny is unwarranted and are urging that...
CASTELLON DE LA PLANA, Spain: Basta, already. Matadors are threatening to shed their traje de luces, turn in their capes and leave the bulls alone if the Spanish government doesn't lighten regulations in the ring. The bullfighters are threatening a walkout over current regulations that say a breeder faces fines of up to $65,000 if examinations after the fight show that they have shaved their bull's horns. Shaved horns skew a bull's ability to estimate distances and makes them more vulnerable to the sword. But union leaders say such scrutiny is unwarranted and are urging that...