Word: walke
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...Walk into most any Wal-Mart in the U.S. and here are a few of the things you can buy: condoms, birth control pills, hunting rifles, "Western" style toy guns, the movie There's Something About Mary, the National Enquirer, cigarettes, the video game South Park, the hard-rocking Powerman 5000's hit Tonight the Stars Revolt. And here are a few of the things you can't buy: a "day-after" birth control kit, handguns, authentic-looking plastic guns, Playboy, rolling papers, the movie South Park, the video game Grand Theft Auto and any number...
This kind of practical morality operates on a larger scale too. Take the sale of alcoholic beverages. Wal-Mart does not sell beer and wine in its traditional discount stores. Yet if you walk into many Wal-Mart supercenters, stores as big as 220,000 sq. ft. that combine a supermarket with a traditional Wal-Mart, you'll find plenty of Budweiser to put in the coolers being sold in sporting goods. Wine and beer are also sold in Sam's Clubs and in the company's new chain of downsized Neighborhood Markets, a.k.a. "small marts...
...characters themselves. In the upcoming Showtime film How Doc Waddems Finally Broke a 100, Newhart plays golf enthusiast Waddems, a mild-mannered orthodontist bent on shattering that score. He finds a hazard in partner Howard Greene (Grammer), an overly fastidious interpreter of the game's rules, and the good walk turns murderous. Newhart, an avid golfer, claims his game surpasses that of the character he plays. "I had to come up with a lousy swing to be believable in this film," he says. "There are a number of people I play with regularly whom I just copied." Asked to name...
...subjectivity of his subject matter and his technique is a wonder to see--take the long ride to the Newton Highlands T station on the green line (D towards Riverside) and the fifteen minute walk to the library. Bring your camera...
...decision like this," says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. "The fact that she's a woman doesn't hurt, either." A willingness by the White House to compromise on abortion rights will probably raise some hackles. But for Clinton, it may be worth weathering some ire if he can walk away from this debate - and his presidency - with something resembling a win on foreign policy...