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...night; the big book, after all, was born when customers had no telephones. And such updated procedures, for all their added charms to the busy users, robbed the catalog of a certain gravitas. At its bulky, clunky, inconvenient best, the big book was both a commercial bonanza for its parent company and a moral force in American life. It discouraged impulse buying and promoted the educational benefits of travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ode to the Sears Big Book | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

WHEN THE SONG COP KILLER, BY RAPPER ICE-T'S group Body Count, brought the wrath of police -- not to mention Charlton Heston and Oliver North -- down on Warner Bros. Records and its parent company, Time Warner, the entertainment giant defended its artist's right to free expression. But it began taking a harder look at its albums, rejecting, for example, the work of the rapper Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iceman Goeth | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...reader, are the ultimate beneficiary of that goal. Whether you are a student, a professor, a graduate, a parent, a city resident, a staff member, a University administrator or a visitor to Cambridge picking up this newspaper for the first time ever, we want to give you the best newspaper possible...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: A Community Paper | 2/5/1993 | See Source »

Perplexed parents who want to obey all the laws can always turn to professional nanny agencies. "All my families sign a contract that says they will take full responsibility for paying taxes just as the law requires," says Marianna Bagge, director of the Denver-based National Academy of Nannies. "I have turned down families who are not willing to comply." Bagge trains up to 70 nannies a year, and their services aren't cheap. The graduates, who are all U.S. citizens, typically earn from $1,200 to $1,500 a month to start, and the academy collects a one-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Obeying the Law | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...government that does not pay its bills, exempts itself from civil rights laws, exploits its power for profit. He spoke of sacrifice, of middle-class tax relief, of returning government to the people who pay for it. He called himself the man from Hope, Arkansas, born into a single-parent family, who understood about hard times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thumbs Down In the Zoe Baird case | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

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