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...truce could prove only temporary. A lot of Vermonters think of the battle in symbolic terms, referring to the store chain as "Sprawl-Mart," a term conveniently supplied last year by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wal-Mart opponents vow to fight the retailer's efforts to build stores in the more suburban locations of St. Albans and Williston, where Wal- Mart has unsuccessfully sought permits for the past four years. As the company surely knows by now, Vermonters give ground grudgingly when they give...
...rumors that the new government was killing Hutu civilians, igniting the panic that drove more than a million refugees across the border to Goma. Now, as an army in exile, these same men prolong the nightmare by discouraging their hungry, disease-ridden compatriots from returning home. Next, they defiantly vow to resume...
Dimbleby persisted: "Were you faithful and honorable to your wife when you took on the vow of marriage?" "Yes," Charles answered, then paused before adding, "until it became irretrievably broken down." There it was: the confession. Charles, the Prince of Wales, the heir to the British throne, was by his own admission an adulterer...
...Mike D's review suggests, the Beasties may have begun to take themselves a little too seriously. Their new record, Ill Communication, which entered the Billboard charts at No. 1, seems overproduced and drained of fun. One well-intentioned song, Bodhisattva Vow, offers lessons on Buddhist thought -- "I try to make my every action for that highest good/ With the altruistic wish to achieve Buddhahood" -- but the underlying music is a snore...
...Massachusetts, provide health or other benefits for gay employees' partners. Such old-line companies as Union Carbide and Colgate-Palmolive hire consultants to teach about sexual orientation. Yet many gays still fear that acknowledging their sexuality may hurt their chances for promotion, and stay closeted even at firms that vow equal treatment. A 1992 survey of 1,400 gay men and lesbians in Philadelphia found that 76% of men and 81% of women conceal their orientation at work...