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...Tammy, you must allow your husband to have dominance in the political, economic and social realms. To submit does not make you inferior. We submit to the government when we pay our taxes and obey traffic laws." Tammy does not seem troubled by the message. She hold's Garrett's arm tightly, stares into his eyes...
...edged voice singing "You cut all the tall trees down, you poisoned the sky and the sea . . ." It was the music of Midnight Oil, the crusading Australian rock group, which staged a brief but high-decibel lunchtime concert below the company's windows. Between songs, lead singer Peter Garrett condemned Exxon's Alaskan oil spill. "You can't treat the world like a garbage dump," he said...
...Garrett, meanwhile, is not talking. But his biography quotes him as saying two years ago that "if I were unemployed, I would probably start a winery." By now, there are probably more than enough sour grapes to start the first batch...
...Quebec separatist movement. More likely, the clash had to do with personalities -- or money. In recent years the society has branched out into book publishing, a TV program, a travel magazine and a research journal. The strain on cash flow triggered cost cutting and staff reductions, leaving Garrett's writers and explorers with less luxuriant expense accounts than usual and strict project budgets to meet. Grosvenor favored shorter stories, focusing on the U.S., in place of the lavish globe-roaming epics of yore...
...final blow came when a committee of staffers, ironically formed by Garrett, presented Grosvenor with a report calling for some changes to allow for the advancement of the young and the restless and to improve the management of the magazine. Grosvenor's reply was to name William P.E. Graves, 63, to replace Garrett at the top editor's post, thus seeming to signal a return to more predictable stories and modest aspirations. Said one depressed insider: "It's like a morgue over there right now, and everybody's just wandering around in a stupor wondering what they're going...