By Joe Eskenazi
The Partridge Family bus notwithstanding, not everything
about the 1970s trumped today's world. Everyone wore polyester - and smoked - a
combination that could very well turn you into The Human Torch. And yet, after one lit himself ablaze (or, as both my parents managed to do,
independently, immolate the back seat of the car via a poorly tossed cigarette)
you could count on your call to the paramedics going through. Clunky as they
are to the modern eye, Sgt. Pepper-era pho
PeopleSoft software has forced a Delaware manufacturer to cut paychecks to Mickey Mouse and let failing Wisconsin college students evade expulsion. Guess what software the San Francisco school district owns?
Antoinetta Stadlman, a 200-pound transsexual on public assistance, dreams of controlling the multimillion-dollar redevelopment of Sixth Street. A misguided state law may just let her do it.