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...SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO, Helen Miller struck another unlikely blow for organized labor last summer. Miller, a member of the service-employees union who spends seven hours a day tending to a tube-fed stroke victim, fought for and won a change in Illinois law that raised the hourly wages for state-paid, home-health-care aides from $3.35 to $5. As the head of volunteer action for the union local, Miller was the first nurse's aide to testify on behalf of the bill. Now she spends her free time organizing home-health-care workers to demand medical benefits...
...personally profiting by more than $500,000). He was also implicating unnamed senior executives at the bank--the world's 13th largest--in a conspiracy with him to keep the catastrophe secret from the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. In London interbank lending rates jumped to reflect this latest blow to the Japanese banking system. Says Alicia Ogawa, an analyst at Salomon Brothers in Tokyo: "This new development serves only to increase distrust of Japanese banks...
...week, the HFA will challenge the limits of common decency in presenting their Flesh and Blood series--six films which over the last thirty years have achieved renown, justified or not, for their explorations of sex and violence. Not surprisingly, the series relies heavily on films from the '60s--"Blow-Up" (1966), "Vixen!" (1968), "Midnight Cowboy" (1969) and "I Am Curious (Yellow)" (1969)--but also includes 1973's "Last Tango in Paris" and 1994's "Natural! Born Killers...
Another film which is also relatively tame by today's standards, Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow-Up" was shocking mainly for depicting a photographer's wanderings in the mod scene of 60's England, involving a little playful nudity and a pot party along the way. But the film best demonstrates how underlying themes can make actually controversial elements seem worse. On the surface we see him taking photos of partially nude models and tumbling about with giggling teenagers--these "loose morals," perhaps, were controversial enough. Yet the deeper theme of the manipulative power of photography upon the mind affects...
Conn, an impeccably tailored Clark Kent type who would have done just fine in front of the cameras, says he will offer a "blow-by-blow re-creation of the shootings to depict the horror of the crime and how unnecessary and brutal these killings were." Conn will direct the jurors' attention to the murder of Kitty in particular, who he says got "lost in the shuffle" during the first trial. "Whether or not [the brothers] felt a threat from Jose," says Conn, "there was no reason to believe there was a threat from their mother...