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That is precisely the problem -- almost everyone is an extremist of one stripe or another when it comes to debating the legal system. Lawyers are advocates, and for some, no cause is more likely to arouse passion than the defense of a profession that, after exacting a grueling apprenticeship, provides their livelihood. The political system is apt to provide only limited succor; nearly half the members of Congress are lawyers. That is certainly one reason why nonlawyers feel compelled to resort to the weapon available to oppressed people everywhere -- sarcastic humor. (Q. Why does New Jersey have so much industrial...
...associate's degree in occupational studies, students take courses in nutrition and cost control and spend weeks serving and cooking in the Culinary's four on-site public restaurants. (The presentation is stylish, the flavors subtle but often underseasoned.) They must also put in 600 hours of apprenticeship off campus at a C.I.A.-approved restaurant...
Mori and his compatriot, Kazuhiru Soma, are here as part of an apprenticeship program established by Zenchiku. In order to better understand how American ranches work, and for their American ranchers to better understand the kind of beef that Japanese consumers will buy, the company has begun sending over young sales managers to work for two years each as American cowboys. Beef is a delicacy in Japan -- selling for as much as $180 a pound. Since it is used in small amounts, the consumer prefers a high-quality, marbled meat filled with the intermuscular fat that America's health-conscious...
Becoming president of a university was the natural next step for Rudenstine, who had passed his apprenticeship in dramatic fashion...
Hank Steinbrenner, 33, has been running his father's horse-breeding farm in Florida and moonlighting as a high school soccer coach. His baseball experience consists of a limited apprenticeship, not entirely remembered fondly. Dave Righetti recalls that in mid-season 1986, the year he set a record with 46 saves, Hank Steinbrenner proposed that the Yankees' ace reliever be immediately replaced by a career minor-leaguer who had just saved his first and only game in the majors. "I don't mind that from George. He signs the checks," says Righetti, the senior statesman among the denizens of baseball...