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...away personal-security systems to battered women. Avon Products is helping fund the fight against breast cancer. Kimberly-Clark is building playgrounds in poor neighborhoods. Barnes & Noble promotes literacy. Coca-Cola is sponsoring local Boys and Girls Clubs. Nike, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, BellSouth, MCI and Starbucks all have pet social causes, as do countless other companies big and small. There are some 800 companies belonging to a San Francisco-based group called Business for Social Responsibility...
...treaty from coming to a Senate floor vote only when the White House pledged to reorganize the State Department. "It was a trade. Neither side wants to admit it, because Helms doesn't want to be perceived as selling out his opposition to the chemical weapons convention for his pet rock of reorganizing the State Department, while the Administration doesn't want to be perceived as reorganizing the State Department just to satisfy Helms and get a treaty through." The reorganization folds the U.S. Arms Control Agency and U.S. Information Agency into the State Department. Helms had argued the agencies...
SAUGUS, Mass.--With its fastfood chains, car dealerships and walk-in pet clinics, this pit stop on the road to Maine is a world away from the sunny 20th floor office out of which State Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64 ponders the Charles River basin, the MIT dome and the spires of Harvard's river houses...
...class flight, a shriveled tax base and the usual urban rumpuses encourage St. Louis authorities to hire S. Jammu, a woman related to Indira Gandhi, to run its police department. Soon Jammu and her imported Indian co-conspirators launch a power grab that includes Orwellian public relations, kidnappings and pet assassinations. Franzen's twisty plot and thriller pace are the sweeteners that mask his caustic commentary on urban decline...
...production also makes excellent use of background music--evoking besottedness, melancholy, celebration, or uneasy anticipation. The soundtrack ranges from Haydn to Tom Waits to the Pet Shop Boys...