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Murphy acknowledged that credibility has sometimes been a problem for his company. "Everyone has the perception that we're trying to rip off students," Murphy said
...still have to provide for folks who end up with nothing.) But to give benefits -- partly tax-free, no less* -- to people who don't need them? We simply can't afford it. If you're over 50, perhaps the greatest thing you could do for Bill Clinton is rip out this page and send it to Lovola Burgess, president of the American Association of Retired Persons (601 E St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20049). Otherwise, the minute Clinton proposes anything that would pinch affluent retirees in any way, the AARP leadership will squelch it -- along with America's chance...
...terrible if Anna weren't quite so Swedish. She jettisons the immigrant inflections for a flat Minnesota accent. More helpfully, she makes Anna a fighter, battered on the wheel of men's lust but still defiantly erect. The actors' posture is important here. As Anna's negligent father, Rip Torn walks with the cramped stride of a man who stays upright by lying to himself -- even as Torn remains true to the text by speaking in the obscure diction of the Muppets' Swedish Chef. And Liam Neeson, wonderfully direct as Anna's would-be redeemer of a beau, lurches from...
...trade, where rivals try to rip one another to shreds every season and a designer is only as good as his or her last collection, Karan's performance has been virtually seamless. At 44, in business for herself for just eight years, she has not only shaped a distinctively comfortable, sexy style as a designer but has also amassed a formidable empire as a businesswoman. Her revenues this year should reach $268 million, up from $119 million in 1989. By 1995, with more and more sales coming from overseas markets, revenues might top the half-billion-dollar mark...
...MASSIVE FOOTBALL PLAYERS COLLIDING AT FULL SPEED CAN GENERate in excess of 1,000 lbs. of force -- more than enough to snap a player's bones, rip ligaments and wreck joints. So it's not surprising that nearly 500 N.F.L. players have been injured seriously enough to miss a game so far this season. What's perhaps more surprising is that there aren't more accidents like Dennis Byrd's. In the previous 15 years, only two pro players have suffered permanent spinal-cord injuries. (Diving holds the dubious distinction of being the most backbreaking sport...