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Popular culture shines its klieg lights on the most intimate corners of our lives, and most of us play right along. If all we really wanted was to be left alone, explain the lasting popularity of Oprah and Sally and Ricki tell-all TV. Memoirs top the best-seller lists, with books about incest and insanity and illness leading the way. Perfect strangers at cocktail parties tell me the most disturbing details of their abusive upbringings...
...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...
...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...