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...Vista, California, near San Diego, board meetings turned into all-night shoutfests when a Christian-right majority promoted use of a creationism textbook. Even more controversial was the board's rejection of two state grants, one offering $250,000 for a Big Brother-type program for lower-income kids, the other $400,000 for free breakfasts for poor children. One board member reportedly argued that the meals program had "more to do with welfare than education" and that children should eat breakfast with their parents. Voters reacted by mounting a recall campaign and found support among the area churches. "People...
...spender shows in 1990 with the Mirage's $28 million Siegfried & Roy, an astounding farrago of illusion and sorcery, acrobats and armies of the knights, vanishing tigers and elephants--and leather, leather everywhere. The evening now goes for $78.35 a ticket. With the possible exception of an all-night masseuse, this is the priciest entertainment on Broadway or the Strip. But Siegfried & Roy remains a huge...
...appearance she recommended her firm's own stock, only to say a few days later she didn't know that was against the rules. And last August police in East Hampton, New York, arrested her on suspicion of drunken driving as she drove a male friend home from an all-night bout of champagne drinking. Garzarelli has pleaded not guilty to the charges...
Cover work can keep writers stationed at their keyboards into the wee hours of the night. "We shared many all-night writing chores on covers," recalls former TIME senior writer Ed Magnuson, the previous record holder. "If my memory turned mushy toward morning, I could always ask George where to find some memorable quote in a correspondent's files. 'Take 21, page 3,' he would say -- without a pause in his typing." At 62, Church, who loves fishing and serenading co-workers with his parodies of popular songs, is still propelled through the toughest stories by an undiminished excitement about...
Union Square may not call to the compulsive shopper or the museum fanatic or the all-night nightlifer. It calls, rather, to an exclusive audience, the people weary of high school rebels and jugglers and academics. It calls to those in search of the real...