Word: sept
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...Russ & Bo Show, a talk-radio program broadcast in the evening over WTKS-FM in Orlando, Florida, usually concerns itself with "women and beer," as one of the hosts, Russ Rollins, puts it. But on Sept. 25, the show addressed the subject of child abuse, commemorating the death exactly 14 years earlier of Ursula Sunshine Assaid. When she was five years old, Ursula was tortured and killed by her mother's boyfriend, Donald McDougall. The murder still causes bitterness in Orlando, and on the anniversary, the Russ & Bo Show devoted five hours to it. Between phone calls, Rollins graphically described...
Your article on the mutual-fund giant Fidelity Investments [BUSINESS, Sept. 30] included the terms arrogance, aggressiveness, young, cocky competitiveness, volatility, obnoxiousness and the phrase "wandering far from their ostensible mandates." Is this type of behavior consistent with the fiduciary duty owed to the client by a fund? The advent of the investment supermarket appears to have transformed investors into mere customers. Caveat emptor. MARK JASAYKO West Vancouver, British Columbia...
Your item on Pennsylvania representative Bud Shuster, chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 30], contained numerous errors, the most egregious of which was the allegation that an amendment to the House Coast Guard reauthorization bill would "shield cruise-line companies from lawsuits by women who are raped aboard their ships." This is absolutely false. The House bill does no such thing. In fact, it expressly protects the right to sue if there is substantial physical injury, the threat of such injury or an intentional act. Moreover, Congressman Shuster's position on this issue has been...
Although I enjoyed Jeffrey Kluger's piece "Call of the Mild" [ESSAY, Sept. 30], I must take issue with his theory that as we enter middle age we make noises that signify our physical decline. I am approaching 40, and I have had to make zero concessions to getting older. Well, sure, when I wake up my joints sound like monkeys on drugs fencing with baseball bats. Think I'll just sit right down here and Uhhh!...Oh, my, oh, my, Hmm, hmm, hmm. Ah, what the heck, if those young lions want me, they can come...
...theory about the crash of TWA's Flight 800 [NATION, Sept. 30] has been circulating claiming that a missile from a U.S. Navy warship on maneuvers may have downed the aircraft. Although this rumor has been vehemently denied by the Navy and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, what a sorry state of affairs it would be if this proved to be true. It would be one of the biggest and worst cover-ups in U.S. history. VICKI DUCANOIS St. Avertin, France...