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Clinton's trade policy, Bauer said, "has created a China lobby in America made up of corporate presidents hoping to enrich their bottom line [and] politicians afraid to offend these corporations because it would cost them donations...
...whether based on "business" or fears that stocking the pill will offend Wal-Mart's oft-conservative customers in rural areas, is it appropriate for a pharmacy to stop dispensing a legal medication? "Imagine, for instance," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "if for business reasons the company had decided not to dispense insulin" -- would Wal-Mart?s decision be ethically supportable? "This is a dangerous, slippery-slope situation," says Gorman. By the way, although the company will no longer be dispensing Preven, it will still be selling Viagra...
Oddly, a movie that features a trash-talking Apostle and a female God is not one with which Disney is eager to be associated. Dogma, written and directed by KEVIN SMITH, takes an unorthodox look at religion, and Disney, producer Miramax's parent company, fears it will offend Roman Catholics. So Miramax honchos Bob and Harvey Weinstein have said they'll buy the rights to the film and sell it to another distributor. Smith, a practicing Roman Catholic, says the movie "was always intended as a love letter to both faith and God almighty...
...same neighborhood. The restaurant condones eating with your fingers and dressing in period-costume and is an appealing alternative to the typical Harvard dining hall experience. A minstrel entertains diners, and the "semi-improvisational show" has been likened to a Mel Brooks or Leslie Nielsen skit that "might offend the more conservative." Dinner shows are every night of the week. (617) 423-4900 for reservations...
Unlike the workers' housing that Le Corbusier designed near Bordeaux in France, where individual touches by the mere inhabitants offend the architect's conception, Levitt homes were made to be customized. The avid householders of Levittown got busy, adding porches, dormers and new wings, the outcroppings of anybody's headlong life. The line on their town used to be that Levitt houses were indistinguishable from one another, and the people would be too. But the place is now, as a town is supposed to be, a work in progress, a setting that can be held to the light...