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...Meanwhile, down in the valley, the newly widowed Lusa Maluf Landowski - "My mom's parents were Palestinians, and my dad's were Jews from Poland" - struggles with the farm her husband has left her and tries to think of something profitable to grow besides tobacco. She complains to a sister-in-law, "We're sitting on some of the richest dirt on this planet, and I'm going to grow drugs instead of food?" And on farms nearby, Garnett Walker III, nearly 80, a widower for eight years, maintains a long-running battle with his neighbor Nannie Rawley, 75, over...
...started as a photocopy clerk at a brokerage, Domini, 50, manages $1.17 billion in private portfolios as well as her $1.89 billion Domini Social Equity Funds, the oldest and biggest socially and environmentally screened index funds in the U.S. Domini does not just exclude "booze, butts and bets"--alcohol, tobacco and gambling stocks. She also files shareholder resolutions and haggles with Walt Disney for better working conditions overseas or with Coca-Cola for more recycling. "Global companies are more powerful than governments," she says. "The way we invest creates the world we live...
...hospitable to Bush, the "Larry King"-style free-flowing exchange around a table that played to his down-home strengths. Bush did seem relaxed, perhaps too much so at times, as he fell back into a body language that suggested he might lean over and loose a stream of tobacco juice at any moment. In this respect, he may have been saved by the format too: Jim Lehrer, who ran a much tighter ship, rules-wise, than in the first debate, is not exactly a buddy-buddy moderator, which probably kept Bush from becoming overly laid-back...
...smoke, there is probably a baseline number of smokers who simply cannot, or will not quit - no matter what measures the federal government takes. And even now, the CDC should take heart: Given the intensive anti-smoking campaigns (funded in part by massive influxes of cash from beleaguered tobacco companies) launched in the last two years, it?s possible that when the 2000 numbers are released in 2002 the CDC will have reason to be pleased. And maybe by 2002 the agency will have figured out they need an inexplicable two years of lag time to scratch out their numbers...
Honorable mention would go to the fatuous politicization of absolutely everything (if you order a steak, it's political), the apparent disappearance of world war, the moronization of popular music, the drug saturation, the demonization of tobacco, the legitimization of gay identity and culture, the mass arrival of blacks in the American middle class and positions of real power, the triumph of multiculturalism and politicial correctness as standards that supersede even the U.S. Constitution (the guarantee of freedom of speech, for example...