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...Eric, a 54-Year-old former Muscovite now living in a Jerusalem suburb. He bears the dubious distinction of being featured in a recent major newspaper under the headline, "Builder of Atomic Energy Plants Now Sweeps Floors for a Living." Since then, the school he used to clean has closed for the summer and Eric, once at the top of his profession, is jobless...
...works like founding a summer camp for inner-city children. Those are accomplishments for which Souljah, by most accounts a young woman with the interests of the black community at heart, | should have been acclaimed. Instead she has gained what will probably be a short-lived notoriety for three dubious achievements: helping a record company make a buck, furthering the agendas of two opportunistic politicians, and distracting voters from what really matters in the campaign...
They meet morose. Davis (Steve Martin) is an architect unappreciated by his firm and by a staid girlfriend (Dana Delany). He has built the latter a house in their hometown that suits his dreams but not hers. Gwen (Goldie Hawn) is a waitress of dubious but, as she tells it, colorful background. In the course of a one-night stand she learns of the house, standing as empty as her life, and decides to fill up both...
...Securities and Exchange Commission against investors Martin Revson and Edward Downe Jr. and others accused of making at least $13 million on inside information -- most of the trades by corporate officers are technically legal and carried out with the full knowledge of the SEC. But a recent spate of dubious transactions by corporate higher-ups has investors crying foul. Says Morris Levy, a Long Island, N.Y., securities attorney: "Shareholders are being blindsided by corporate insiders because the SEC is turning a blind eye and letting them run wild with impunity...
Accused killers don't tend to be attractive people. Quite a few of them, perhaps the overwhelming majority, are guilty. But even the most dubious characters are supposed to get a fair trial, in which their attorneys are equipped to make the best possible case on their behalf. Because the majority of murder defendants are also broke, however, many of them get court-appointed lawyers who lack the resources, experience or inclination to do their utmost. When the Supreme Court restored capital punishment in 1976, it did so in the expectation that death sentences would be imposed in a fair...