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...started four businesses, including a lucrative airport shuttle), Case leaped into a life in corporate America. Working for giants like PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble, he chafed at the implacable peculiarities of management, but he also took careful notes. At P&G, for instance, he had a front-row seat for corporate marketing. He still chuckles about the P&G executives so dazzled by the success of Bounce--a tissue impregnated with fabric softener--that they jumped to the odd conclusion that the idea might work for hair care. The result was a conditioner-impregnated tissue. Case helped invent a catchy...
...wake of the crash, though. Still, when the witness got to the crash site, he found photographers taking pictures and people starting to approach the wreck. In the car he could see the three men but not Diana, who had been thrown to the floor behind the front passenger seat. The witness spoke to the only man moving, Rees-Jones. "He had half his face ripped off. He was conscious and looked at me," he says. The witness ran from the tunnel and borrowed a mobile phone to call for help...
WASHINGTON: For politicians, there are hot seat issues and there are comfortable armchair issues. But in the tobacco settlement, President Clinton has found a real La-Z-Boy ? where he can take an extremely popular position without lifting a finger. "Put simply, he wants to renegotiate," says TIME's White House correspondent Jef McAllister. "And he can, because he took this issue on a year ago and it's clearly got his stamp on it. Now he's come down on the side of C. Everett Koop and David Kessler, who say the settlement doesn't do enough for children...
During the first day of jury selection for the trial of accused 17-year-old killer Edward S. O'Brien Jr., attorneys impaneled four jurors and estimated it will take two more days to seat a complete jury...
...more understanding; after all, they claim to be simply following what they believe. And living at home seems harmless enough. But the principle Yale is defending is that in a changing society, where religious beliefs may no longer coincide with community and acceptance, religion must take a back seat. Affirming such a principle is Yale's prerogative. It is also the prerogative of the Yale Five not to apply to Yale, but to somewhere else that is more (or less) tolerant, depending on how you look...