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...accountable," says Monty Lobb Jr., president of Citizens for Community Values. "The gallery is open to the public; it's on public land and receives taxpayers' money." As a result of the pressure, the chairman of the gallery's board stepped down from his post and another board member quit outright...
...land divers, put on tuxedoes and top hats and dropped from the Golden Gate Bridge. Among early devotees were two brothers, John and Peter Kockelman of Palo Alto, Calif., who in 1987 began jumping from bridges over river gorges in the Sierras. Recognizing the sport's commercial potential, they quit their jobs as engineers and in May 1988 opened Bungee Adventures in Palo Alto. Recently the Kockelmans introduced hot-air balloons as jumping platforms. Every week 100 jumpers ranging in age from twelve to 72 pay the Kockelmans $99 to leap from a tethered balloon 150 ft. high...
...executives in the television commercial are grim. "We need more smokers!" growls the tough-talking boss of a tobacco firm. "Every day 2,000 Americans stop smoking. And another 1,100 also quit. Actually, technically, they die. That means that this business needs 3,000 fresh new volunteers every day. So forget about all of that cancer, heart disease, emphysema, stroke stuff! Gentlemen, we're not in this business for our health!" And with that, the businessmen erupt in gales of sinister laughter...
...Lincoln's Union, unlike Gorbachev's, was a democracy. Lincoln fought to preserve the Union because he believed that secession meant the end of the great American experiment in self-government. If a minority (the South), upon losing an argument (the election of 1860), can just pick up and quit the Union, then the whole idea of republican government becomes a farce. If every disgruntled minority can take up its marbles and secede, then the monarchist and other reactionary critics of the (then) unique American experiment in republican government would be vindicated: man is not fit for self-government...
...last Wednesday to hushed staffers who had gathered outside his office door. Citing a longing to spend more time with his family and the fact that his father had died of cancer at the age of 46, Lynch said he had decided it was time to quit. He will be succeeded by Morris Smith, 32, who runs the $700 million Fidelity OTC (over-the-counter) fund, one of the fastest-growing parts of the Fidelity group's 180-fund empire...