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After a decade of steady growth in the family business, everything started to go wrong. In 1975, at age 33, Jacobs was depressed and ready to quit. "I said to myself, 'What do I need any more money for? I've had enough of Big Business.' " At the root of his malaise was the failure of Grain Belt Breweries, which he had bought with a $4 million loan. In his attempts to make it more profitable, he filmed a TV commercial with the line: "It may be my brewery, but it's your beer." Nothing worked. Says...
...that all punishments are uneven and hypocritical. Having cited these arguments, Noonan rejects them all. Bribery, he concludes (a bit sententiously), is a betrayal of the public trust necessary for society's survival. Beyond that, he sees a theological principle at work: "The imitation of God lies at the root of the bribery prohibition. God 'does not take shohadh,' the book of Deuteronomy proclaims...
...processing business has also started to take root in the U.S., which up to now has been mostly a customer. Forced to quit Colombia and aware that the ; U.S. is the world's largest producer of ether, traffickers have decided to import coca paste to Miami and process it locally. Over the past 18 months, authorities in Miami have closed down cocaine refineries at the rate of one a month. In January, an elderly woman strolling along the seashore in Palm Beach County almost stumbled over a dozen Army duffle bags. Suspicious, she called the sheriff's office; when...
...NOTEBOOK Harvard Coach Frank Mel aughim will be looking for his 99th win as a head coach tonight...Quaker Chris Elzey has a stained right root, but is expected to play...Princeton visits Briggs tomorrow night...Harvard, which earlier this season swept Penn Princeton on he road for the first time ever, bas never finished a season 4-0 against the Quakers and Tigers...Cornell, currently tied with Harvard for second place, is at Yale-Brown this weekend. Harvard has won eight at his nine home games...
...much more than food and wealth is at stake now. In the great farm century a way of life was established that profoundly shaped the nation. The heartland became, in Madson's view, "a repository of traditional attitudes that are metered out through the root system in subtle but powerful ways. It is a region whose soil base has lent the freedom and stability that men need to reach free and stable conclusions...