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...prospect of a QVC-HSN merger appeals to many suppliers. Greg Renker, president of Guthy-Renker Corp., which sells some 20 products through home- shopping channels, says the deal "will double our window of opportunity." Before, Renker could sell items ranging from vitamins to sunglasses through either QVC or HSN, but not both. However, Kurt Barnard, publisher of Barnard's Retail Marketing Report, says, "This merger will reduce competition. Instead of two channels, there will be only one, and suppliers will no longer be able to play one channel against the other to negotiate a better price...
Eyewitnesses at the time estimated that about eight gunshots range out. One bullet shattered a first floor window in the Bay-Bank Harvard Trust building. Another landed in the mail box on Mass. Ave, in front of Bay-Bank. Cambridge and Harvard police both participated in making arrests, with university police Detective Hubert Estes apprehending one suspect near the Apley Court complex on Holyoke Street...
...Bill Crews announced that he was homosexual and took part in April's gay civil rights march in Washington, D.C. Declared Crews: "I am marching to put a face on gay America." When he got home, he discovered that somebody had thrown a fire extinguisher through his family-room window and spray-painted his house with graffiti: MELBOURNE HATES GAYS. NO FAGGOTS. QUEERS AREN'T WELCOME, GET OUT. Says Crews: "Our effort is to be strong and persevere so our message can get through. The most important thing a gay person can do is come out -- and it is tough...
...tidy backyard of the Cape Cod-style house with the cranberry shutters, Jessica DeBoer is having a picnic with her dog Miles. Her mother watches her through the blinds on the kitchen window. Everything feels so very normal. But the clock ticks loudly and the blinds all stay down and an answering machine screens the phone calls. Reporters keep calling -- and sad friends, and adoption experts -- and strangers who feel sorry for them...
...spiritual side and turning to bravado and brutality. In Milwaukee, not a Refuge city, one of the newer forms of protest is "speed-bumping" -- throwing oneself under the cars of patients headed for clinics. Local doctors have received death threats in person, and bullets were fired through a clinic window last week. Declares pro-choicer Joan Clark: "The blockaders are not from here. They're all from somewhere else, and they're paid by the missionaries. They're thugs, and they travel...