Word: loyalism
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Starbucks kept the name of Coffee Connection because the cafe group has "a very loyal following in Boston," according to assistant manager of the Harvard Square branch, Joe P. Driscoll...
Word is a "webzine," one of dozens of bright new publications that have blossomed in the past year on the World Wide Web, the hot new multimedia hangout on the Internet. With edgy graphics and clever first-person writing, webzines are attracting a small but fiercely loyal readership. They are also starting to attract something even more important: good old-fashioned advertising. Saab, IBM, MasterCard and clear-beer Zima are among the sponsors whose winking logos bedizen every screenful of Word. And the stimulus of these ad dollars has encouraged even more publishers to come online...
...stunned Whitacre, who had seen himself as a hero. "I really believed I was doing a good deed," he says. "I thought I'd be able to fix the problem and stay with the company." Such thinking can be typical of whistle blowers. "[They] often claim to be more loyal than management to the best interests of the company," notes Columbia University professor Alan Westin, who has written a book about corporate informers...
Exactly how the government got Fortier to agree to testify is not clear. But TIME has obtained a vivid account of how investigators persuaded McVeigh's sister Jennifer to provide the prosecution with two typewritten statements, even though she is fiercely loyal to her elder brother (she is 21, Timothy 27). Jennifer and her father William McVeigh agreed to the TIME interview under terms negotiated with Timothy McVeigh's lawyers that tightly restricted what could be asked. Thus Jennifer would not discuss what she had told the grand jury. But as to how FBI and other federal investigators had treated...
...like-minded enthusiasts in Washington's Capitol Hill Club last February. "It's an elitist enterprise. Rush Limbaugh is public broadcasting." Yeah, and so is Howard Stern--and Jenny Jones is Ken Burns, and Tom Clancy is Toni Morrison. The fact is that no system with as broad and loyal an audience base as PBS repeatedly garners can be called elitist. A national poll conducted for PBS by Opinion Research Corp. indicates that fully 84% of Americans want to see PBS funding maintained or increased and that 82% of them--79% Republican--feel PBS programming content is "neither too conservative...