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...when Bill Salisbury of the St. Paul Pioneer Press & Dispatch and Lori Sturdevant of the Minneapolis Star Tribune returned to their newsrooms, their editors overruled the promises of confidentiality. Cohen's close ties to Republican Candidate Wheelock Whitney, the editors argued, made his identity a matter of importance to readers. Both papers reported the incident, naming Cohen as the source of the leak. MARLENE JOHNSON ARRESTS DISCLOSED BY WHITNEY ALLY, declared the front-page headline in the Star Tribune. Columnist Jim Klobuchar, a friend of Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Rudy Perpich, then decried Cohen as a "sleazy" player. Cartoonist Steve Sack...
...regular newspaper columns and on a weekly radio show. He brushes off complaints that he uses these outlets to encourage people to bring lawsuits. "All I do is educate people about their legal rights," he maintains. People must be learning. Several weeks ago, Lipsig's firm, which helped pioneer medical-malpractice claims, had to settle out of court in a legal-malpractice suit brought by a client who claimed that it mishandled her case...
Giorgio was the pioneer of scent strips, but more than a dozen other manufacturers have followed suit, since the tactic seems to work wonders. Fragrance sales, which fell in the early 1980s, have steadily risen for the past five years, according to the Fragrance Foundation. Scent strips have become so effective that they are challenging department stores as the primary means for introducing and sampling new fragrances. For readers who cannot make it to the nearest posh department store, the ads provide a toll-free 800 number to call to buy the product from the privacy of their living room...
...years, and have been made from materials as varied as opium, gold and ivory. Dr. Friedrich Wilde, a German gynecologist, developed the modern rubber version in 1838, and it quickly gained widespread popularity in Europe. In the U.S., however, it never caught on, mainly because Margaret Sanger, a pioneer in family planning in the 1900s, favored the diaphragm...
...Club) were among a group of Hollywood producers who appeared before a convention of cable executives in Los Angeles this month to avow their interest in producing shows for cable. Martin Sheen has formed a production company to develop shows exclusively for cable. So has Shelley Duvall, a cable pioneer with her Faerie Tale Theatre series on Showtime. "In terms of creative freedom, cable television today is where broadcast television was in the 1950s," says Duvall. "Producers have a lot of room to explore new frontiers...