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...remedy endorsed by the A.M.A. report is new state legislation. It recommends as "one of the most effective" reforms that a cap be placed on the amount of money that can be awarded to injured parties. Another recommendation is the use of pretrial review. Wisconsin, Louisiana and Indiana, for example, already have panels of medical professionals who review suits before cases go to trial; they suggest a settlement if the case has merit or brand it without merit if it does...
...planning the Monday-afternoon parade. Governors unable to serve as grand marshals were urged to designate "citizen representatives" in their places, and more than a dozen did so. Some of the designees were already celebrities, including Astronaut Sally Ride (California), Marathoner Alberto Salazar (Oregon) and Chef Paul Prudhomme (Louisiana). Others were honored for little-noted achievements, including Arkansas Teacher of the Year Alfreeda Marshall. Altogether, final plans for the parade called for 57 floats, 43 marching bands, 37 equestrian units and one dogsled from Alaska pulled by 21 Huskies...
...Louisiana fare was chosen to celebrate the Sun King exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery. Shell Oil, sponsor of both the exhibit and the dinner, hired Paul Prudhomme, the famed Cajun chef at the New Orleans restaurant K- Paul's, to prepare 29 dishes for 500 to 700 guests. The National Gallery ordered regional American dishes from Design Cuisine, a Washington caterer, to mark its exhibition of American paintings lent for the Inauguration by Armand Hammer, the millionaire industrialist. Some 250 guests were expected to sample Wisconsin veal, Puget Sound salmon, New England cranberries and beaten biscuits...
...least a score of prior cases from Alaska to Georgia involving school searches, lower court decisions have been sending what Thomson calls "a mixed message." A Louisiana court ruled for the stricter standard of probable cause; a few other states have cast school officials in loco parentis (in the place of a parent), able to search pretty much at will. But most lower courts have presaged the Supreme Court ruling for reasonable grounds, allowing the kind of search Choplick made...
Successful American Presidents have carried the nation forward because they have rarely if ever had to worry about resources. Perhaps Reagan, intimidated by deficit concerns, feels more limited than his predecessors in the Oval Office. Thomas Jefferson instantly accepted a deal to buy the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, money the new nation did not have. Jefferson was convinced that Americans would pay, and they did. Abraham Lincoln at first hoped the Civil War might take a few million dollars and a few weeks to win. But after four years he had the world's biggest army...