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While sanctions are hurting the poor, who survive on beans and rice, shops in Port-au-Prince were well stocked. Cement supplies began to run out and so did Kellogg's Corn Flakes, but well-to-do supporters of the junta boasted they could outlast Clinton. Local supermarket owners said they had enough stock in warehouses for at least three months. "The prices are higher," says a Haitian executive, "but I can still get everything I need." (Last week, however, gasoline prices shot up abruptly...
...invasion. Meanwhile, Barnes reports, the U.S.-led embargo is proving a flop. Lieut. General Raoul Cedras is rumored to be making $50,000 a day off the black market, and Haiti's civilian elite have every luxury "but Kellogg's corn flakes . . . By the time the embargo reaches the well-to-do, there probably won't be a country left to save...
...across U.S. showrooms, it will have to do so as a grass-roots movement. There is only so much muscle the Big Three can apply to change its dealers' ways. To own one of the 23,000 dealerships in the U.S. is to be a member of a clannish, well-to-do and often fiercely independent society. Dealerships are regularly traded or sold among friends or in-laws; 40% of them at present were inherited from a family member. Oldsmobile general manager John Rock, who is the son of a Chevrolet dealer and whose wife is the daughter...
...much are well-to-do tenants saving at their landlords' expense? A great deal. According to Linda Levine, co-chair of the Cambridge-based Small Property Owners Association (SPOA), one local tax attorney and her husband pay roughly $200 a month for their Cambridge apartment. By contrast, a two bedroom Harvard-owned apartment on DeWolf street runs $1,400 per month...
...heavies, moreover, are considerably less frightening than those in real life. Murders on these shows are nearly always committed by well-groomed, well-to-do white people, and the deeds are neat, bloodless, imaginatively staged. In recent weeks we have seen a magician drown in a tank of water when his escape trick is sabotaged (Diagnosis Murder); a late-night TV host electrocuted by his microphone at a Friars-type roast (Burke's Law); and a manic-depressive book editor driven to near madness and pushed off a building roof to feign a suicide (Murder, She Wrote). Murders are never...