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...personal life is any indication, that pretty much has to be true. He conducts his private affairs like a man competing in a tabloid decathlon. To summarize: three wives (including a stripper and a Playboy bunny), three children (not all by people he was married to), plus trouble with alcohol (DUI) and cocaine (possession, rehab). "The beauty of playing Frasier and being Kelsey at the same time was that they did not relate," Grammer says. "I was scandal fodder throughout all those years because I played such a contrary role--uptight, intellectual, inhibited Frasier vs. indulgent, wild ... expressive Kelsey...
Setting age limits that label some guests too senior for the prom is only one of the restrictions that school administrators have been imposing on students and their dates this spring. A growing number of schools also screen for alcohol at the door, require teens to sign drug-free pledges, ask parents to consent to their child's choice of date and in some cases even conduct background checks on outsiders invited to the event. The rules have sparked school-board showdowns across the country. Administrators say they just want to keep kids safe. Graduating 17- and 18-year-olds...
...more. Recent media reports have illuminated a darker side of this art movement, documenting cases of well-known artists being lured away from desert communities by unscrupulous dealers, to be plied with fast money, drugs and alcohol in exchange for hastily completed canvases, often of poor quality. The message is worrying buyers as far afield as France. "'dreamtime artist hit by nightmare of sex and fraud'-did you see that in the paper?" asks Arts d'Australie gallery dealer St?phane Jacob over the phone from Paris. "It's really something that is affecting the credibility of Aboriginal art overseas...
...police departments develop good sources of intelligence and then, the greatest challenge of all, share that intelligence with one another and with the armada of federal agents in the city--from the FBI to the U.S. Attorney's office to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Then they have to build professional, solid cases that will hold up in court. Finally, they must avoid handing the cases to certain local judges who have what Bernazzani calls "a warped sense of social consciousness...
...lawless neighborhoods and put somewhere else, criminologists have found. In the more hopeful scenario, people who parachute into better neighborhoods commit less violent crime. That theory posits that places like New Orleans, where poverty is extreme, are inherently crimogenic--which is to say, they produce deviant behavior, just like alcohol. Gangs are also crimogenic. When people leave gangs, they are generally less violent than they were as gang members. In neighborhoods and gangs, in other words, violence--and peace--is contagious...