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...hour. Many of these stores provide coffee and other refreshments; Atlanta's Oxford Books (115,000 titles) has a lunch counter and stays open until 2 a.m. on weekends. Says owner Rupert LeCraw: "We've built a following of regular customers who don't even go into chain stores." Stuart Brent, 70, whose Chicago store has been a bastion of intellectual taste for about 40 years, says, "You have people ((those who run chain stores)) today who think that life is the bottom line. But the great principle of being an independent is to become passionate about books...
Cover: Portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart from Scala/Art Resource, N.Y. Teardrop by Tim O'Brien
...truth: he has never been a favorite of Republican conservatives. As President, Bush might have been expected to ignore the demands of a faction that has been sniping at him for years; instead, he has wooed the right, doing the minimum, and sometimes more, to keep it happy. Says Stuart Rothenberg, a political analyst with Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Research and Education Foundation: "He's like the constant suitor. He's always there with the candy and flowers...
...going too far. Seven of the nine stock-market workers featured in the August cover story, "Women of Wall Street," have left their jobs since their photo sessions last year. Lisandra Trujillo, a broker for South Richmond Securities, returned to school. But Robin Mormelo, an administrative assistant for the Stuart-James brokerage house, says she was denied raises and felt compelled to quit. Says Mormelo: "Maybe I'm naive, but what difference does it make what I do when I'm out of the office...
...prime reason for the nervousness is that no one is sure just how much property the Government will be taking over. Stuart McFarland, chairman of Virginia-based Skyline Financial Services, which manages 8,000 repossessed properties in 21 states for the Government, estimates that the real estate might total $200 billion or more. The load of S & L properties is compounded by a growing stock of real estate that other Government agencies have taken over in recent years because of loan defaults. The Farmers Home Administration will have to dispose of 1.3 million acres of farmland, a territory roughly...