NO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Entrepreneurial Spirit A book advertised in the Hyperion fall 1995 catalogue: Jesus, CEO: "Following the example of Jesus—a 'CEO' who took a disorganized 'staff of twelve and built a...
...I think that to allow air strikes in Bosnia would be extremely detrimental to travel everywhere...
...Moser, fifty-two, gunned down his former wife, Linda, and daughters, ages fourteen and ten, in the parking lot of a suburban Philadelphia church in 1985...
...Disneyland Jam An item in the Chicago Tribune datelined Anaheim, California: "The third time Katrina Laurent was stopped for driving too fast, she lost her Disneyland pass...
...Certainly there's irony,' said Larry Fields, director of Oklahoma's corrections department...
...Now we have a screaming liberal Democrat in office and he not only allows air strikes but orders them, and this at the peak of the travel season...
...Let's stop these communists before they ruin our country...
...In fact, I believe that all unions should be stopped...
...Estimated speed: 4.5 miles per hour...
...Eye of the Beholder From a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on a $1.5 million libel suit filed by McDonald's Corporation against two jobless vegetarians in England: they are "accused of libeling McDonald's by producing leaflets that accused the restaurant chain of selling unhealthy food, engaging in abusive labor practices, and fostering environmental destruction...
...We should demand that Clinton retract this statement regarding air strikes...
...Laurent, a thirty-five-year-old who uses a battery-powered wheelchair because of cerebral palsy, was trying to get across Disneyland's Main Street to the Pocahontas show before the Lion King parade blocked her way...
...Officers said the woman took her child to a clinic and had the device implanted three years ago rather than report the incident to police...
...But we're bound by the law, the same law that he violated.' " Back to the Future From a story in the Wisconsin State Journal on a commemorative celebration at the grave site of Senator Joseph McCarthy: One participant "said the current militia movement owes an homage to McCarthy, saying, 'These militias are a direct result of what he started...
...Civil Service From a story in The Philadelphia Inquirer concerning a rally demanding a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal, the black activist sentenced to death for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer: "The head of the special Philadelphia police unit that handles sensitive racial issues has been transferred for telling a black officer at a crowded protest rally: 'You're sweating like a nigger.'" Frontiers of Free Enterprise Bill Ribkee, owner of a carpet company in Spring Hill, Florida, quoted in the Chicago Tribune on Hurricane Erin's minor impact: "It's a big letdown...
...It doesn't matter if one later becomes a saint or a millionaire or a homeless person...
...No more strikes...
...Burial in a national cemetery is based on the character of one's service,' said Bill Jayne of the Department of Veterans Affairs' national cemetery system in Washington...
...If I see a picket line, I cross it proudly...
...it turned out, word for word, that he was right.' " Neglected View A letter in the Santa Maria Times from reader Paul Allen: "I am writing to express my dissatisfaction with President Bill Clinton's recent decision regarding air strikes in Bosnia...
...No more strikes...
...NO COMMENT Entrepreneurial Spirit A book advertised in the Hyperion fall 1995 catalogue: Jesus, CEO: "Following the example of Jesus—a 'CEO' who took a disorganized 'staff of twelve and built a thriving enterprise...
...Ltd., because they 'include nutrients.' Coca-Cola is nutritious, said David Green, U.S...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Technology as Destiny An item in The Washington Post datelined Dallas: "An eleven-year-old girl was fitted with Norplant, a surgically implanted birth-control device, after she told her mother that she had been raped by her stepfather, police said...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...senior vice president for marketing, because it contains water, 'and that's a part of a balanced diet.' . . . Under cross-examination, Oakley said he could see how waste-dumping could be considered a 'benefit' to society...
...When the air-traffic controllers had a strike in the 1980s, then-President Ronald Reagan would not stand for it...
...Then they brought him back to prison, strapped him on a gurney, and executed him...
...I was hoping it would flood so my business would pick up...
...The Veterans Affairs Department can refuse burial only in certain instances, such as an honorably discharged veteran later convicted of treason.' " Killing 'em with Kindness An Associated Press story datelined McAlester, Oklahoma: "When guards found Robert Brecheen groggy from a drug overdose in his cell, they rushed him to a hospital and had his stomach pumped...
...Otherwise,' he is quoted in the transcript, 'you will end up with lots of vast, empty gravel pits all over the country.' " Military Justice An Associated Press story from Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania: "Leon J. Moser, who was executed last week, can be buried at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery because he was honorably discharged from the military...
...Ouch Headline on a story about Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson in the Green Bay Press-Gazette: Thompson's penis a sword...
...It's time for Americans to stand up and be heard...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...McDonald's menu items are nutritious, said Edward Oakley, senior vice president of McDonald's U.K...
Vol. 59 • October 1995 • No. 10
