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...also basking in a warm glow of goodwill for having created employment. Along with 850 construction spots, the theaters have created roughly 100 permanent jobs in each city. "This isn't a program," says Lawrence Ruisi, president of Sony Retail Entertainment, the New York City-based parent of Sony Theaters, which had long been interested in trying to develop movie theaters in minority areas but lacked the entree. "It's a real business that makes economic sense." But Sony couldn't pull off any deals until Johnson and his business partner, venture capitalist Ken Lombard, now president of Johnson Development...
...costs about twice what it did in 1970. Yet from 1970 through 1994, government figures show, median family income in constant dollars increased only 10%. In more recent years it has actually fallen below the 1986 figure. Taken together, these trends make tuition a very painful prospect for any parent whose kid has just been accepted by Penn or, for that matter, Harvard, Yale or Princeton...
...have to be mad to be tantalized. Being human will do. Think of it: what Dolly--fat, insensible Dolly--promises is not quite a second chance at life (you don't reproduce yourself; you just reproduce a twin) but another soul's chance at your life. Every parent tries to endow his child with the wisdom of his own hard-earned experience. Here is the opportunity to pour all the accumulated learning of your life back into a new you, to raise your exact biological double, to guide your very flesh through a second existence...
...Barrett, a parent from Brigantine, N.J., said he was impressed with his son's full schedule...
...came to see our daughter and her environment," said Dickie Cupp, another California parent...