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...admission to South Carolina's all-male Citadel, the same judge ruled that the prestigious military college's first woman cadet will have to get her head shaved like the boys. U.S. District Judge Weston Houck accepted the school's plan for Faulkner's admittance, which includes the dreaded trim. Faulkner's lawyer called the requirement "punitive and degrading...
...sort of a blue psychedelic swirl....Thrown into the air it has a sort of hypnotizing effect," he says, demonstrating by tossing it high above his head a few times. Heller says he also owns a pink kipoh with yellow ducks and a "leather one with white trim that I wear for formals...
...became an editor, working three days a week. Until shortly before she died, she was responsible for a dozen books a year, and she gets straight A's from anyone who worked with her. Doubleday chief Stephen Rubin says that "she was directly involved in everything -- line editing, trim size, jacket design, sales and marketing. She would call up a big book chain to push her books. And she was never grand. She would wait outside your office if you were on the phone...
Perhaps the Coop's managers feel that increased business with non-members would boost profits, thus also boosting members' rebates. While this is theoretically a good strategy, it does not seem to be working. It is time for the Coop to trim some of its dead weight, and eliminate chronically unprofitable departments...
President Clinton revived a tough provision of U.S. trade law in an attempt to get Japan to trim its $59 billion trade surplus. The measure, the so-called Super 301, creates a "hit list" of countries deemed to be unfair traders and threatens punitive tariffs of up to 100%. Said Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa: "We would like to deal with this matter calmly...