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...expertise on military matters so impressed his colleagues that he beat out two contenders, including the chairman, for the top job in 1985. He promptly showed his shrewd, dealmaking side by setting up what is euphemistically called the Member Services group on his staff. Aide Larry Smith, now counselor-designee at the Pentagon, ran what was really an old-fashioned political pork operation, assuring committee members that their interests would be looked after in exchange for their vote on committee affairs. Committee members who went along got along. Those who crossed him, like former Representative Albert Bustamante, found their...
Simple numbers, hard consequences -- how does a school decide what stays, what goes? In the past two years, the Hayward district canceled a program that provided 34 specially trained teachers to help students who have reading problems. But it held on to six counselors, in part because of an outcry from parents who feared their children would not have guidance to make judgments about college and careers. Even six seemed too few to students puzzling over their prospects. "We have a million decisions to make, and there's no one here to talk to," complains Jared Mariconi, a senior. Mary...
...with him. Then he brought his friends over and said she had to have sex with them too. She didn't want to, but she figured maybe this is what you have to do to be popular in high school." So the girl submitted, recalls Cowger, 17, a peer counselor at the high school in Lakewood, California. She sympathized with the younger girl's dilemma: "These were the popular guys...
...acting throughout the play is almost uniformly excellent. Even the supporting cast is funny--Colin Stokes, in particular, is fantastic as Gavin, a drug counselor just discovering the wonder of controlled substances. Bess Wohl, as T.V. reporter Corinne Le Mans, is irritating in her best scenes, flapping around the stage like a bird about to take flight, but gives the single funniest performance of the entire play after meeting "Lucy...
...monitoring the group contend that the men are also being instructed in how to stalk and harass. The convergence of pro-life forces has placed great strain on the area's sole abortion clinic, where about 30 protesters have been picketing for the past month. Merritt, the clinic counselor whose son was harassed, says when the murder of the doctor was announced to the protesters, they took up a chant: "One down! How many more?" That same question is now on the minds of many others...