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...Tulsa program has had its failures. One 14-year-old who did a five-month stint riding with the cops later viciously attacked and robbed a motorist in a parking lot. Police blamed a lack of concern and discipline at home. "This program's a shot in the arm," says patrolman Greg Ball, "but it's only one part of the puzzle." Other officers agree -- but they are also convinced that reforming a teenager is easier and far cheaper for society than dealing with a hardened criminal...
Last week, after having lost almost $250 million on the News since 1980, half of it within the past year, the Tribune Co. finally gave up. To end a sometimes violent five-month strike, during which the paper kept publishing but virtually all revenue disappeared, the News was "sold" to British-based media tycoon Robert Maxwell, 67. In truth, the "buyer" was paid $60 million just to take the paper off the Tribune Co.'s hands. The bulk of that will go to buyouts and severance pay. To add to the Tribune Co.'s pain, in just six days Maxwell...
...time that the factions might agree to a trade: Democrats would go along with a cut in the capital-gains tax favored by the President; Republicans would accept the hike in income taxes on the wealthy that the Democrats demand. Such a swap had been explicitly rejected during the five-month budget talks that produced the original plan...
That huge transfer of wealth does not sit well with Northeasterners, who face a gloomy future because of cutbacks in the defense, financial and high- tech industries. Retail sales in New England are flat or falling. In the five-month period ending last May, New York City and northeastern New Jersey lost 15,000 private-industry jobs, their first drop in such employment since 1982. Economists believe a lasting increase in oil prices would hit the area hard. "It would deepen and prolong the downturn here," says Wayne Ayers, chief economist for the Bank of Boston...
...lines have been tied in postmodern knots, Tiffany's plummy palate, iridescent surfaces and flowing shapes are attracting record museum throngs and stratospheric auction prices. "Masterworks" was the most popular exhibit ever at the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery in Washington; some 225,000 people visited it during its five-month stay. At Christie's a pond- lily glass table lamp brought $550,000, a record auction price for a Tiffany work...