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MUSIC "Sampling" puts a new snap and crackle into...
...Angeles home peddling a $1,300 auditing package to cure her grief. Some $15,000 later, the Scientologists discovered that her house was debt free. They arranged a $45,000 mortgage, which they pressured her to tap for more auditing until Baker's children helped their mother snap out of her daze. Last June, Baker demanded a $27,000 refund for unused services, prompting two cult members to show up at her door unannounced with an E-meter to interrogate her. Baker never got the money and, financially strapped, was forced to sell her house in September...
Pssssst! Wanna look at the hottest read in town? Then snap up a copy of . . . the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. annual report. While the title suggests a pastiche of dry statistics and commercial puffery, connoisseurs of corporate entertainment eagerly await each year's version -- particularly the plain- spoken chairman's letter, written by superinvestor Warren Buffett. In the Omaha-based holding company's 1990 edition, released last month, the author quotes such thinkers as Woody Allen, Bertrand Russell and Buffett's four-year- old granddaughter Emily, while characteristically mocking his own financial acumen...
...American Dream. Nestled along the East Fork of the Des Moines River, it is a quietly prospering place for 6,015 men, women and children. And unlike so many other Iowa communities, its economy isn't entirely tied to corn. Algona is the county seat, the home of a Snap-on Tools plant as well as some other light manufacturing, so it is more resistant to the farm recessions that periodically smite neighboring towns...
...criminal-justice system, which permits too many criminals to go free after serving only token sentences or none at all, become so ineffectual that officers feel the need to play judge and jury on the spot? Has police work become so dangerous that even well-meaning officers can snap under the pressure...