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...Globe's season contains no such archival curiosities. Instead it features star turns by Brian Bedford in Richard II, Earle Hyman and John Vickery in Julius Caesar and Paxton Whitehead in a revival of Beyond the Fringe. But the repertory also meets one of Artistic Director Jack O'Brien's longstanding goals, a world premiere of a substantial new play staged by him. The work, Emily, depicts the comic misadventures of a female yuppie, a hard- working stock trader who refuses to acquire furniture, artwork or a steady boyfriend for fear of being tied down. She picks up a waiter...
Often it is the sleaziest of peers who pressure a budding star to get involved with dope. Says Julius Allen, a coach of the Each One, Teach One summer-league basketball team in New York City: "Even at the high school level, drug dealers want to associate with athletes because they are a status symbol." John Lo-Schiavo, president of the University of San Francisco, says the problem can get worse in college. "When a kid gets national acclaim and looks like he's going to be a top draft choice and so forth, there's a tendency...
...becoming symbols of the nation's drug problem, athletes, with their enormous prestige, could become part of the solution. Many established athletes are responding to the call, speaking out more vigorously against drug abuse at rallies and on television. Last week a number of prominent pros, including basketball's Julius Erving and baseball's Dave Winfield, filmed commercials urging kids to say no to drugs. A striking commercial currently on the air features Mercury Morris saying to coke users, "A phone call could help you. It took prison to help...
...respectful back-to-basics prescription for the high court. To a host of legal scholars, Democratic politicians and aroused liberals who saw beneath the surface, however, the words meant something else altogether. The President, these critics complained, was wrapping himself in the Constitution while trying, in the words of Julius Chambers, director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, "to impose his own narrow ideological views onto the Supreme Court...
...billion so-called seat miles, representing the total number of passenger spaces available multiplied by the total route mileage that could be flown. Today that capacity has reached 547 billion seat miles, a 43% increase. There are plenty of seats, in other words, to go around. Says Julius Maldutis, an airline analyst for Salomon Brothers investment firm: "The airlines are locked into a low-fare environment from which there is no return." No matter what happens to People Express, its impact on air travel will not be easily undone...