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...Walton has achieved folk-hero status in small-town America, his company has its critics. The country's 100,000 independent manufacturer's representatives are currently incensed at Wal-Mart, claiming that the chain is trying to run them out of business by dealing directly with its suppliers. Meanwhile, Mom-and-pop-store owners contend that Wal-Mart's cut-rate prices have helped wipe out Main Street shopping. In the past, Wal-Mart's conservative management has drawn some flak for being too slow to promote women, which the company says is untrue, and for being too quick...
...mom went to Radcliffe and was always angry that the men at Harvard got better treatment, so I'm happy to say that I can go to Harvard," says Nicole L. Gueron '90. She adds that as a freshman, she feels little sense of Radcliffe community among her female classmates...
Roll over, Karl Marx. Wake up, Friedrich Engels. Nearly 150 years after The Communist Manifesto and 70 years after the Russian Revolution, free enterprise is coming back to the Soviet Union. Businesses ranging from mom-and-pop shoe repair to interior decoration are being legalized under a new "individual labor" law that takes effect this Friday -- which happens, ironically, to be the international socialist holiday May Day. The measure makes it possible for the first time since Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) of the 1920s for individuals to make money legally according to a decidedly un-Marxist principle: from...
...Education Department officials argue that higher education has become something less than the administrators' rosy picture of the ivy-covered university. "They always pull this moral argument where higher education is on the same level as the flag, mom and apple pie," says Miller...
...trouble started last month, when Milwaukee's premature spring temperatures gave way to a brief snowfall. Jeff Barnett, 33, and Roommate Bill Hackbarth, 30, built a life-size snow sculpture of a family at the beach: kids playing, Dad holding a beer can, Mom in a light blue bikini spray-painted on her shapely form. Enter Kathleen Zanio, 43, a former Franciscan nun, who drove by the sculpture one afternoon. "Here was this woman with large, protruding breasts and abdomen," says Zanio frostily. "It was obnoxious and repulsive...