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...early next year will appear in a supporting role in Robert Downey's new movie Rented Lips. "He wasn't playing Hamlet, but Spuds was perfect on the first take every time," says Film Producer Mort Engelberg. "He didn't ask for overtime, and there was no sexual misconduct on the set." Hollywood, in short, seems at last to be barking up the right tree...
...with size and wealth have come some other characteristics of the business world: bottom-line thinking, firms that go bust as well as boom and charges of ethical misconduct. "Many lawyers say that law has always been a business," explains Stanford University Law Professor Robert Gordon. "Now it's just acting like one." Some of the changes are of consequence mostly to lawyers, who can no longer count on the clubbiness of the past. But there are wider implications too. Not quite a calling, but more than a business, can a legal profession driven by market forces fulfill its role...
...Congressman Barney Frank were also quick to adopt the PIO's cause. As for the UN mission, the US is bound by the 1947 "Headquarters Agreement" to allow UN personnel to stay in the US to carry out their duties. Since there has never been any formal charge of misconduct agaonst any PLO diplomat employed by either office, one might ask why some congressmen think that these offices should be closed. The answer is that the pro-Israel lobby, 40 organizations strong, has insisted on the closing of the ofices. The supporters of these maneuvers include Senators Alan Cranston...
Next month the Supreme Court will hear a case that is likely to hinge on the Justices' decision as to whether alcoholism is a disease. Two former soldiers, now recovered alcoholics, are seeking to overturn a 56-year-old Veterans Administration policy that classifies alcoholism as "willful misconduct" rather than a sickness. The VA's definition prevents alcoholics from receiving benefit extensions awarded to veterans with illnesses. In seeking to make their case, the plaintiffs' lawyers are expected to bring up the new evidence that alcoholism may have a genetic basis. Says Kirk Johnson, general counsel for the A.M.A., which...
Brown went for a two-point conversion, but Donovan's pass was broken up. Harvard had a 14-9 lead, and a 15-yard misconduct Brown penalty was marked off on the kickoff...