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...member Southern Baptist Convention, which has decided to boycott Disney for its "gay friendly policies." Disney's worst offense? The decision to bring Ellen Degeneres' character out of the closet on the sitcom "Ellen," produced by Walt Disney Television and shown on Disney subsidiary ABC. Mouse Central is keeping mum. Last year, the Convention issued a warning to Disney about the evils of "Gay Days" at company theme parks and same-sex partner health benefits. Disney survived. Richard Land, executive director of the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission, maintains that whether or not Disney pays heed, he?s doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mouse, Get Thee Behind Me! | 6/18/1997 | See Source »

...Supreme Court is expected to rule within the next month on the so-called Communications Decency Act , but, mindful that it has served for months as the law's passionate defender both in the courts and on the presidential campaign trail, the White House is expected to keep mum about its sudden change of mind until the Supreme Court takes a stand first. Civil rights activists and Internet advocates, while pleasantly surprised by the about-face, argue the White House should make its case known sooner rather than later. "It raises waffling to an art form," chides David Sobel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House Waffle | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

...they can cough up. A payment so large that it cripples the business defeats the purpose of their settling, although that point seems to be getting lost. Besides, no tobacco chief is going to cut his shareholders' throats. Just how much can the industry afford? Tobacco execs have been mum on the subject. It was the antitobacco side that floated $300 billion, to be paid over 25 years, and even to many of them the amount originally seemed pie-in-the-sky high. Then something interesting happened: tobacco stocks rallied as Wall Street ground down a few hundred pencils figuring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE $300 BILLION QUESTION | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...sending girls into fits of hysteria. At 25, her mum was photographing celebrities. At the same tender age, STELLA MCCARTNEY, daughter of Paul and Linda, is taking over from Karl Lagerfeld at the House of Chloe. McCartney had her own fledgling biz, but will work exclusively for the French label. It's not just her famous surname that got her the job. She studied fashion at London's Central St. Martin's College, which is where John Galliano (Christian Dior) and Alexander McQueen (Givenchy) learned their stripes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...mum and dad would have been extremely proud, and perhaps they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

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