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Indeed, legal experts are hard pressed to cite examples of cases in which parents have suffered harsh penalties. Under a St. Clair Shores, Mich., ordinance, for example, a couple was fined $2,200 in 1996 after their son pleaded no contest to breaking and entering a church and drug-related charges. Their convictions were later overturned. Says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco: "Parental-responsibility law is a gray area. It's a toothless tiger. We have no research on the laws' effectiveness...
...Midwest, uprooting trees and lifting homes off their foundations. In the wealthy Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms, three children and two adults who sought shelter in a waterside gazebo were killed when strong winds swept the little building into the air and sent it crashing into Lake St. Clair. On the east side of Detroit, witnesses said a tornado lifted a house off its foundation and tossed it several feet into an alley. A 38-year-old woman from Mount Morris Township, near Flint, was also killed by a falling tree. "It looked like "The Wizard of Oz,'" said...
...CONCEPT OF "CONNECTING" GETS A lot of lip service in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. The title characters use speech, sex, food and music in their sometimes earnest, sometimes weary efforts to make that connection. The sex is fun, but it's not the point. Frankie and Johnny want someone to brush their teeth with in the morning...
...same, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune is a delightful production of a work that makes no pretense toward Art. At one point, Johnny asks Frankie to recite a monologue from a high-school performance. She balks: "You think actors just go around acting for people like that?" Sometimes, it seems, they do. Frankie and Johnny is fast-food for the theatrical set, but Burt-Kinderman and Friedland serve it up scrumptious...
...into public-works budgets do we really want business to wade? Already, some local police and fire departments have official sponsors. In St. Clair County, Illinois, sheriff's department squad cars carry the logo and phone number of Barcom Electronics, a local alarm company. Barcom pays $6,000 a year to the county, which uses the money for a drug-awareness program. "Obviously, I get instant credibility," says Barcom executive Mark Bartle. But there's a danger too: if the department should come to rely on private funds for needs like vehicle maintenance, it could have to scramble to keep...