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NASHVILLE, Tenn.: The Lord may work in mysterious ways, but Mother Teresa hires muscle. Questions of "immaculate confection" aside, the Holy Mother of Calcutta has asked Nashville coffeehouse owner Bob Bernstein to quit baking his famed buns, shaped in her image, for his Bongo Java coffeehouse. She?s thinking lawsuit. Bernstein, whose $1.89 pastry has attracted a barrage of international publicity, from the BBC to Letterman, has no intention of shutting down his ovens, arguing: "If it were sacrilege, we'd stop. But it's not." While the coffeehouse's Nun Bun web site (http://www.qecmedia.com/nunbun/index.html) portrays the original...
...economy that so often in the past has not been willing to commit to them. The ruthlessness of companies is now turning against them. The manager at the Kroger supermarket started offering employees a $100 bonus if they would just stay three months. "They'll quit a good job with benefits if somebody offers them 50 cents more," says Streitenberger. "They come in and tell me how much they want to make. And I'm sitting here looking at a high school graduate with no experience who is telling me he wants to make $20 an hour...
...woes, the D.N.C. may soon see changes at the top. Colorado Governor Roy Romer, its other co-chairman, has declared he will decide by June whether to quit the D.N.C. to run for the Senate. He says he is excited by his party job, but colleagues report that he is frustrated at spotty cooperation from the White House. Several senior Democrats say Clinton would like Romer to quit anyway because "he apologizes too much" for the fund-raising scandals. A Senate race, however bruising, may not look like such...
...station's finest hour--but it wasn't its worst, either. Lately, the 11-year-old ship has been falling apart at an alarming rate, and the cash-poor Russians have been unable to do much about it. In March, its oxygen system failed; soon after, its gyroscopes quit; and three weeks ago, an ongoing coolant leak caused temperatures to rise to an oven-like 88[degrees...
...Trying to kick the habit? Prozac may help. Taking high doses of the antidepressant for 10 weeks raises the odds that you can quit SMOKING--and remain smoke-free for at least six months. The drug seems to ease cravings and reduce the irritability that often accompanies quitting...