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...short-weighted hundreds of food packages. Even so, nobody expects Leonard's fall from grace to hamper the business. "We were packed today," chirps son Stew Jr. "Our customers are extremely supportive and sympathetic." And at Stew's, the customer is always right. It says so on the three-ton tablet of granite at the store's entrance. And it's firmly believed by the hundreds of positive-thinking Dale Carnegie graduates who work at the company. As Stew Sr. once said, "It's important to pass along our values to the staff...
...early June, the four-ton, 30-ft.-long female minke whale was done with her winter sojourn in temperate waters. It was time to head back to the chilly Arctic for the summer. Traveling north, she and her fellow minkes would periodically dive down to gulp fish, then swim back to the surface to suck air through their blowhole -- for like all whales, minkes are air-breathing mammals. They followed an age-old migratory track, invisible to humans but as well marked as an interstate highway to the whales...
...meaningless to most of the people it's meant to describe, according to a recent poll by MTV. Nonetheless, the ambitious "declaration" of this hard-to-label generation will soon be curling out of fax machines all over the U.S. "Like Wile E. Coyote waiting for a 20-ton Acme anvil to fall on his head," reads the preamble, "our generation labors in the expanding shadow of a monstrous national debt." Baby boomers are given a political threat: "We grew up amidst the betrayals of Vietnam, Watergate, and Iran-contra. We are witness to the highest divorce rate ever...
...Made in America is basically one long evasive action, a nice little entertainment designed to whisper sweet nothings in our ear about two very edgy matters, race and sex. Because it's so comforting, it will probably make a ton of money. But bitter truth -- anyway an occasional touch of it -- can be funny too and, these days, quite useful...
4/3at San Diego Classic 2nd Penn 6:05.2, Harv 6:09.5, Yale 6:14.2 4/14 MIT W Harv 5:59.3, MIT 6:14.9 4/24 Yale/Princeton (Goidthwait Cup) W Harv 6:35.8, P'ton 6:36.1, Yale 6:36.8 4/25 at Dartmonth W Harv 5:44.8, Dart 5:46.4 5/9 at EARC Sprints 2nd Dart 5:45.2, Harv 5:46.3, Cornell 5:48.3, P'ton 5:49.2, Penn 5:49.5, Yale...