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DIED. CHARLIE RICH, 62, singer whose proto-Kenny Rogers ballads like The Most Beautiful Girl and Behind Closed Doors fused Nashville to Vegas in the '70s; from a blood clot; in Hammond, Louisiana...
...physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities" has provoked an outcropping of frivolous lawsuits. In Indiana a customer filed a complaint against a restaurant because a waiter refused to carve the meat for the man's ailing mother. A Louisiana television anchorwoman sued for time off to receive fertility treatments. In each case, the charges were thrown out. What infuriates ADA advocates is that most of the 45,000 complaints filed over the past three years with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission have been brought by people citing types of disabilities--back...
...What a thrilling event: heroic Captain O'Grady and his courageous rescuers. Make room for the real thing, Schwarzenegger and Willis!" Cleary Hinton Lake Charles, Louisiana...
...real healing going on," said Billy Tauzin of Louisiana, who also resigned from the committee. Tauzin has given Democrats until December to shape up--or he will jump just in time to run for the Senate. Mike Parker of Mississippi isn't expected to wait that long. When asked if he is switching parties, he says, "I have no plans to switch--today." More telling is the way he describes himself: "a recovering Democrat...
...come. On a 5-4 vote, a sharply divided Court said thatrace cannot be the predominant factor in drawing up election districts. The decision could make it much more difficult for blacks in southern states to be elected to Congress, saysTIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "In Alabama and Louisiana, two states with large black minorities, you could once again see an all-white congressional delegation. In the civil rights movement," says Cohen, "the pendulum has always swung only one way, toward greater minority voting rights. Now, with this decision, the pendulum is sharply swinging back." Writing for the majority, Justice...