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...over. Last week a congressional committee asked for a criminal investigation into the firm's handling of implants. Among the evidence: a 1980 memo from a Dow Corning salesman complaining that the company's decision to put "a questionable lot of mammaries on the market . . . has to rank right up there with the Pinto gas tank...
...transmitted over police-car radios and the sexist remarks in the halls. In most places it means wearing an uncomfortable uniform designed for a man, including bulletproof vests that have not been adapted to women's figures. The atmosphere is made worse because about 3% of supervisors over the rank of sergeant are women, in part owing to lack of seniority. Milwaukee police officer Kay Hanna remembers being reprimanded for going to the bathroom while on duty. Chicago Lieut. DeWitte found condoms and nude centerfolds in her mailbox when she started working patrol...
...news in Paris and in his hometown of Dade City, Fla. When Courier won last month's Australian Open, another of the coveted four, it was big news Down Under -- and in Dade City, Fla. Last week Courier was closing in on becoming the first American man to rank No. 1 since the 1985 dethroning of John McEnroe, who is still big news pretty much everywhere. Presumably, as Courier fought his way through a San Francisco tournament where he could pick up the needed handful of ranking points -- he started the week with 3,652 to leader Stefan Edberg...
...didn't win a pro-tour event until 1989 and didn't add another victory until just 11 months ago, at Indian Wells, Calif. Meanwhile, his agemates Michael Chang and Pete Sampras had joined Agassi in surging ahead. A year and a half ago, when asked to rank up-and-comers, former champion Arthur Ashe mentioned Courier in the second tier...
Unfortunately for Buchanan, paleocon-servatism was dispatched by the rank-and-file of the Republican party 40 years ago. In 1952, Sen. Robert A. Taft, "Mr. Republican," met defeat at the hands of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike, of course, had spent the primary season in Europe as Supreme Allied Commander...