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...archetypes, the TV Dad. He prefigured Homer Simpson and Al Bundy; he took Ralph Kramden out of the realm of buffoonery and carried him to his logical extreme; he took the omniscient, benevolent TV dad of the '50s and exploded that figure as irrevocably as a gunpowder-stuffed tobacco pipe. Sure, this was a slap in the face of conservatives, who chafed at the show's Norman Lear liberalism. But the O'Connor's genius was that he played the part well enough to discomfit ideologues on the left too. Archie Bunker proved that satire is TV's most dangerous...
...official Palestinian television station, to sit with him in his empty restaurant, smoking a water pipe and looking out over the Mediterranean. Mikki came back from exile with Arafat and amassed a fortune from corrupt deals. He began to puff on a nargileh filled with apple-scented Bahraini tobacco. Barely was the pipe lit when a man walked quickly toward him. Before Mikki could move, the gunman killed him with a three-shot combination known to hit men as "Mozambique style"--a bullet to the forehead and one in each breast. It was a local power play--a battle over...
...attack this disease only on the battlefield? Why not go after its supply lines of tobacco, food additives and pollution? CHRIS GLOVER Istanbul...
CHURCH INC. Faith plays a huge role in investing: "You gotta believe" in your stocks. But what of religious faith? Roman Catholics can now invest behind their beliefs by following the Carlisle Catholic Indexes, which since Jan. 1 have tracked companies that are in line with church mores on tobacco, lending, warfare and sex. Workplace discrimination and environment, though not the Catholics' touchiest issues, were generally why companies were excluded...
...Dunhill, or as it is known since the revamp, Dunhill' (apparently punctuation is key-Burberry used to be Burberry's) was the definition of a brand that had lost its libido. Most people associated the name with smoking, although it divorced the tobacco business 10 years ago. After its parent, Swiss luxury-goods company Richemont, appointed Guy Leymarie to take over the reins, Leymarie hired a designer from Herm?s to do the menswear collections and a couple of smart young architects to do a new store. Leymarie also came up with a tag line...