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...Charles [Mo.] customer Sharon Willman continued to get solicitations from the casino in spite of efforts to have her name removed from a promotional mailing list. We would like your readers to know that Willman's name was removed from our mailing list Nov. 1 after a database error was discovered Our company made a mistake, admitted it and corrected it. JACK TAYLOR, Director Corporate Public Relations Station Casinos Inc. Las Vegas...
...comic is set in a banal yet bizarre near-future world, in which voodoo dinosaur zombies can run amuck in a 24-hour convenience store, or the clerical error of some guy in shipping can cause you to wind up wearing the right arm of a lycanthropic astronaut. Schrab calls this aesthetic "surreal"--indeed, one of the book's slogans is "Surreality just got funky!"--but that doesn't seem quite the right way to describe it. The key to understanding the "logic" of Schrab's universe is to realize that it's not the same sort of causality that...
...readers of the daily press. "Reading the newspaper is one of those adult rituals that begins to interest older children and young adults precisely because it is part of the adult world." Trying to introduce it earlier--in a school setting--would be at the very least a tactical error...
...Normandy to the Allied victory in Berlin. Not many starters finished. The period from June 7, 1944, to May 7, 1945, is saturated in blood, sometimes frozen solid. What was called the Crusade in Europe is in large part a story of questionable judgments, dumb luck, trial and error (the easiest way to dig a foxhole in icebound terrain is to start with a hand grenade; the main lesson learned in street fighting, says one survivor, is to stay off the street). "I feel very close to these guys," says Ambrose, who looks and sounds like a hardened field commander...
...glad that, at the PSLM's prompting, the Business School quickly realized the error of its ways and decided to draw up a specific stance on free speech on its campus. We urge that the formulation of this policy include all members of the Harvard community, including, interested faculty members and administrators, since free speech is perhaps the most important clause in the official policy of any academic institution...