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Office Space notwithstanding, the life of the white-collar wage slave is chronically underchronicled, and one wonders, with all the suburban epics out there, why aren't there more office novels? Granted, with all the undead mayhem, there are moments when Hynes seems to lose track of what exactly he's trying to say about office life. Should we fear the zombified Dilberts that threaten Paul's sanity or pity them? After all, what office drone hasn't felt his or her humanity being leached away by carpeted walls and racks of low-hanging fluorescent lamps at $5.25 an hour...
...work, it's a positive sign. Rising prices signal renewed economic vigor and a healthier job market. For everyone else, inflation is a serious pocketbook drain. Wage increases aren't likely to keep pace initially, and rising loan rates will further cut your buying power. Mortgage rates have already begun edging higher. Pretty soon we'll have to say goodbye to five-year, 0% car and truck loans...
DIED. PHIL SOKOLOF, 82, who spent millions of his own money to wage war against fat; in Omaha, Neb. After a heart attack at age 46, the self-made millionaire, who suffered from high cholesterol, began buying full-page newspaper ads with such headlines as MCDONALD'S, YOUR HAMBURGERS HAVE TOO MUCH FAT! His work prompted some fast-food chains, including McDonald's, to begin frying potatoes in vegetable oil rather than beef tallow and other companies to stop using highly saturated tropical oils in packaged snacks. He was credited with helping bring about mandatory nutritional labels on food packaging...
...criticism are meted out with wit and a steely determination to get things right. Like his predecessor, David Glass, Scott is a modest man with a ready supply of pungent remarks. He has been on the receiving end too, as Wal-Mart's critics harp about its low-wage jobs and sprawling stores. Scott has no apologies in stock for most of them. When the company does dumb things, it deserves the knocks, he says. But with 100 million patrons a week voting their opinion through their purchases, "we have to focus on the customer who does believe...
...Lewis and the neoconservatives, the failure of Islam to reconcile itself to modernity is now too dangerous to leave alone. Moreover, they believe, the application of external force can be a catalyst for reform and peace. No scholar has had more influence than Lewis on the decision to wage war in Iraq. To what end, we don't yet know. --By Michael Elliott