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...scientific research and by everyday observation.'' Treatment programs in Canada, Britain, Germany and Australia have long distinguished between problem drinkers, who consume too much alcohol but can cut back if they get help, and hard-core alcoholics, whose only hope is a lifetime of sobriety. Even the most avid proponents of abstinence admit that some former alcoholics have successfully navigated the road to moderate drinking...
...case is fantasy land,'' says Scott Wallace, special counsel to the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "It's not real life in the criminal justice system." And it would be unfortunate if the public's avid consumption of this and other trials of the rich and famous -- the Menendez brothers, Claus von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith -- left the general impression that our criminal justice system routinely allows defendants a thorough and aggressive defense, in which no fact goes unchallenged or theory unexplored. In fact, the report that Spangenburg co-authored for the A.B.A. concluded that the indigent defense system...
Clark is an avid golfer and jogs regularly,according to a biographical sketch...
When Plaks, Bach sheet music in hand, quietly crept in to the room in which I was interviewing his roommates, I asked him if he, a non-biker, felt some-how lesser or insecure while living with such avid motorcycle men. He said that he didn't feel lesser. In fact, he plans to get a bike of his own. Simply the influence of his roommates? "Well," Plaks explained, "People have no personality. You need something to know...
...Avid fans of "NYPD Blue," still reeling from David Caruso's smug betrayal, (forget that Jimmy Smits has been excellent) would have been happy to see his film career flounder. But with the release of "Kiss Of Death," Caruso's career, unfortunately, should take off. Directed by Barbet Schroeder ("Single White Female" and "Reversal of Fortune") and starring Caruso, Nicholas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson, "Kiss Of Death" is a powerful modern interpretation of film noir...