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ALTHOUGH he is a highly respected corporate law scholar, Clark is probably better known on campus for his caustic attacks on the radical Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement. Over the last five years, Clark led the factions that have denied tenure to three CLS adherents, speaking out against them at every opportunity. While many of his right-wing colleagues kept their criticism "off the record," Clark continued his attacks in the national press...
...beginning of the show is a clear indication of what is to come, as dazzling individual performances and choreography carry through an other-wise weak script. Most lines fall flat, devoid of the slapstick well-known to shows past...
...night came in Act II, when the speakeasy clientele and the cops don camoflauge outfits and wellplaced grenades. In the night's fashion coup extraordinaire, Agent Tess Tosterone sports black leather bodice, camo cape and the most lethal weapon of all--metal breastcups with fold-out knives--better known as "Ginsu chest...
...arrive at such a sorry state? Traditionally, running a thrift was a relatively tranquil business. S & L managers used to follow what was known as the 3-6-3 rule: pay depositors 3%, lend money at 6% and tee up at the golf course by 3 p.m. When interest rates remained stable, the strategy worked well. But by the late 1970s, thrifts began steadily losing depositors to the new money-market funds, which were not covered by deposit insurance and paid higher interest rates...
This phenomenon is known as cross dependence, or cross addiction. Researchers estimate that between 40% and 75% of people in treatment programs are multiple-substance abusers. Sometimes people mix several drugs at once -- liquor and tranquilizers, for example, as in former First Lady Betty Ford's case. Others, like Kitty Dukakis, may slip from one chemical to another. Says counselor Fred Holmquist of the Hazelden Foundation in Center City, Minn., where Kitty was treated for amphetamine abuse: "It's like switching staterooms on the Titanic...