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...cafe, the 14th "Au Bon Pain Express" to appear on the Boston area's fast food scene (the 15th makes its debut next week), is smaller than the area's previously existing store across the street from Harvard Yard. The Express restaurants, which are almost completely self-service, serve fewer people than do the standard shops...
Polls show that most Americans feel ambivalent about abortion and that the two sides in the debate fail to express the moral ambiguity at the heart of the matter. The irreconcilable answers people give to pollsters are, in part, an expression of society's inability to come to grips publicly with so private an issue. In a Los Angeles Times poll last year, 61% of those interviewed said abortion is morally wrong; 57% of them believe it is murder, yet 51% think it should remain a woman's decision. When rape and incest and parental authority enter into...
...wrote so feelingly on Islamic culture, got great comic effect by treating every alien he met -- even an American -- as an unintelligible buffoon; and his John Bullish contemporary Evelyn Waugh all but enunciated a Blimp's Code by asserting that no man who knew more than one language could express himself memorably in any. (Take that, Nabokov! Et tu, Samuel Beckett...
...future may not be as bleak as the present. Thomas Ryder, president of American Express Publishing, predicts that the consumer-magazine industry will emerge from its slump during the next 18 months "shaken, but stronger for it." In the meantime, certain less glamorous market niches are flourishing: witness the success of highly targeted publications like Model Railroader and Golf Illustrated. Service and life-style magazines, meanwhile, , are attracting some keenly interested, well-financed investors. American Express recently acquired D (for Dallas) and Atlanta as part of a plan to expand into 20 city markets. And on June 1 Time...
...grant of immunity. People who know the admiral well are convinced that the effort will come to naught, that history will have to judge Reagan -- where the buck really stops -- on the fuzzy story before us. "John Poindexter was made a flag officer in the U.S. Navy for the express reason that he would not break in a crisis," says retired Admiral Clarence Hill Jr., a friend and manager of Poindexter's legal fund. "He did not. And he is not going to break in the future. He believes he is right...