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Catalog operators, for their part, are facing not just slack demand but also the rising costs of paper and postage this year. L.L. Bean, which experienced a $25 million jump in such expenses, will launch television commercials for the first time in its 83-year history this Christmas to help promote its 800 number. Rival catalog giant Lands' End plans to resist the industry price-cutting trend by holding its prices level with those of last year and offering extras such as free gift boxes and monograms. Says Lands' End president Michael Smith: "If you're selling computers or electronics...
...wasted to alter military operations in response to false information. While former CIA chief Robert Gates has denied reports that CIA Director John Deutch is planning to reprimand some 12 past and present CIA directors, TIME's Doug Waller predicts congressional leaders won't hesitate to take up the slack. Says Waller: "We'll likely see demands from Republicans and Democrats alike for greater accountability by the specific individuals who have been party to this mess...
Verhoeven and Eszterhas may have needed the R rating after all. When they made Basic Instinct--a sexy R movie--they deployed atmosphere and innuendo to complement Sharon Stone's swank star turn. Here, with an NC-17 rating, the lads go slack; they let pubic hair and menstruation jokes do all the work. Since their leading lady can't act or dance or dazzle the camera, they've got problems they apparently didn't want to solve...
Harvard is better equipped to deal with government cuts than almost all other universities. We are fortunate that enough resources can be gathered to pick up this Republican-induced slack. But many other schools with smaller endowments will have to turn students away. Some that have been considering the abandonment of their need-blind admissions policies--even in the Ivy League--might not be able to resist any longer...
...media coverage and where politics has become a national spectator sport. The American people have been relieved of the burden of the cold war, where you kind of had to trust your government to keep the evil empire at bay and you wanted to cut your government a little slack. Attention is now turned inward. They are not entirely happy with what they see. Too often they see partisan bickering and fighting that goes beyond the reasonable levels of democratic discourse. Is there really that much difference between what the Clinton Administration wants to do with Medicare and what...