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From all the fuss raised in New York this past winter, one might have thought that the Tribune Company, the parent organization of The Daily News, had tried to defraud the News workers of the last 10 cents of their lawful wages. Not really. Tribune and News executives wanted to end entirely illogical make-work rules which Hoge says were costing the paper millions of dollars a year, which it could ill afford...
...mother Brandy, a single parent: "She always listened to me. She thought of me as her best friend. If it weren't for me, she wouldn't have anything, and if it weren't for her, I would be nothing." Being raised without a father was "the best thing that ever happened to me. I never realized there was any difference between men and women. It never occurred to me I would have to be a nurse and not a doctor...
...stars in . . . a Woody Allen picture. But right now she is a director, and a damned fine one, of a small-budget film. Little Man Tate is something sensitive with three people: a gifted child (Adam Hann- Byrd), his sympathetic teacher (Dianne Wiest) and the mother, a defiant single parent, torn between love and loss...
...hardheaded '90s. Today Duran Duran is history, and heavy metal is white-hot. Thanks to bands like Metallica, which sold 650,000 copies of its namesake album in the first week of its August release, every parent's worst nightmare has become a record executive's dream come true. Metallica entered Billboard's top-albums chart at No. 1 and stayed there for four weeks, spawning the hit single Enter Sandman. Even the critics are coming around. Rolling Stone awarded Metallica four stars in its review, calling it "an exemplary album of mature but still kickass rock & roll...
...issues can support a presidential campaign. The leading Democratic advocate of civic obligation is Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, who announced his candidacy last week. Beyond sharing the views of Etzioni and Conner, Clinton has actually succeeded in having some of the "responsibilities" philosophy codified in law. For example, Arkansas parents who fail to attend parent-teacher conferences can be fined, and students who drop out of school are denied driver's licenses. "Not everything we do that is wrong is illegal," says Clinton. "The trick is to provide the incentives and disincentives that can curb such behavior...