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...boomers are mourning the fact that those rules they understood just don't apply anymore." Maybe we need to attend to the commercial wisdom of Hallmark cards, one company that has no problem marketing across generations. Hallmark simply adjusts the product line to conform to demographic trends. Consequently, says Marita Wesely-Clough, trends expert for the company, it will soon be producing more get-well cards for people with "extended illnesses...
...that's me. Republicans apparently never, ever tell a lie. Moreover, they don't count the other sins as sins unless compounded with a lie. Mother Marita Joseph didn't see it that way. Who would have thought the family-values party would be saying, in the interest of distinguishing Clinton's behavior from its own, "It's not the adultery, stupid; it's the lying." When it seemed last Thursday that the world couldn't spin any further out of control--bombs falling in eerie green light, members of Congress starring in a morality play without the morality--here...
...Marita Juse, 48, of Burbank, Calif., will be sentenced later this month for embezzling more than $1 million from Pinkerton's, the oldest and second largest U.S. security firm. A fugitive on tax-fraud charges, Juse used an alias when Pinkerton's accounting division hired her. Obtaining computer codes, she made wire transfers of cash from the company's bank account. Juse faces up to 30 years in prison. Meanwhile, Pinkerton's, the company that once stalked Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is pitching a job- applicant screening service to its clients, which include half the Fortune...
...some Black directors and actors held their own this year. Tim Benston '89 directed a high-profile production of Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prizewinning A Soldier's Play on the coveted stage of the Agassiz Theatre. And Walker directed On Being Young, a Woman, and Black: The Works of Marita Bonner Occomy ['22], also at the Agassiz...
Autobiographical essays, like the one by fiction writer Marita O. Bonner, "On Being Young and Colored," reveal a special and personal insight into the evolving Black experience across the barriers of time and prejudice...