Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst week, Tobon collected the remains of eight couriers. The youngest mule he has encountered was 17. The oldest was an 82-year-old fruit seller from Bogota who was caring for a 40-year-old retarded son. The narcotraffickers promised her that with just one trip, she could ensure her son's future. But a condom burst as she got into a taxi at Kennedy Airport, and she died an agonizing death. "I sent her home," says Tobon. Many, if not most, mules are women...
Clearly, the Clinton Administration expects a repeat of sorts. It projects $1.2 billion of tax revenue this year and $6.3 billion next year from the sale of stock and other assets triggered by the lower rate. Somebody should explain the new era to Washington: nobody is a net seller of stocks anymore. Since the tax act cleared Congress on July 28, the market has held up fine. We aren't interested in some piddling tax consideration while stocks are rising 30% a year. Some selling may materialize this week as the deadline passes for a line-item veto...
...going to see Sarah Ban Breathnach, whose name is pronounced Bon Brannock. She is the author of Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, a 500-page meditation to help women find fulfillment by appreciating what they already have. It has been on the best-seller list for 70 weeks, with 2.2 million copies in print. (A companion journal zoomed onto best-seller lists last month--an astonishing feat for a virtually blank book.) Simple Abundance's entry for this day is "The Home as a Hobby," in which she suggests that cleaning out the basement...
...valued above Power Rangers and Super Soakers. But does this justify $12.95 for a diary? New York Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath has declined to put the book on the Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous list (where Abundance now reigns), explaining, "I don't think the best-seller list should reflect merchandise...
...earnings to charity--$250,000 already this year to the House of Ruth, Habitat for Humanity and the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, among others. And whether Journal is a book or not, it became, with Oprah's help, No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal's best-seller list...