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When Carol Inkley went shopping for a new car earlier this year, she faced a supply-side problem: a pending divorce had left her with little to spend and nothing to trade in. Inkley, a Chesterfield, Mo., interior-design coordinator, solved her dilemma by signing a four-year auto lease that avoided the hefty down payment a normal car loan would have required. Cost of the lease: $239.04 a month. She drove home in a new white Honda CRX complete with automatic transmission, air conditioning and AM-FM radio...
...Landmarks Commission, after a six-month campaign by historians and a preservation group, granted landmark status to the interior of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, blocking the Jesuits' plans to convert the church to offices and sleeping quarters as part of a consolidation of the order's headquarters...
...church, part of the original Boston College campus in the city's South End, has a Baroque-inspired interior described as a "historic rarity" by John Coolidge '35, professor emeritus of fine arts at Harvard Univerity and a leader of the preservation drive...
...impresario? None other than Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, who staged the display as part of a campaign against pornography. Dubbed "Pasqua's Sex Shop" by the press, the antiporn program quickly backfired. An uncooperative President Franois Mitterrand declared that he opposed "all forms of censorship," and former Culture Minister Jack Lang pointedly sent along an erotic engraving by Picasso to be included in the show...
Still, many women have found more substantial benefits at women's centers. Long Island Interior Designer Gloria Levine credits Dr. Budoff with saving her from a mastectomy after Levine discovered a lump in one breast: "She told me how to ask my oncologist to find out if I was a candidate for a lumpectomy." Another clinic patient, Delores Burton, reports that after a painful procedure, she was offered tea. "No doctor ever gave me a cup of tea before. It's a different kind of care." That combination of service and solicitude, notes Dr. Budoff, has earned the ultimate accolade...