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...There's enormous anger against SAG in the industry because there's a feeling that they're not being realistic," says Jonathan Handel, a digital-media attorney at TroyGould in Los Angeles. Although none of the other unions have managed to obtain an increase in DVD residuals, SAG is still pushing for it. But because of the weak economy and the fresh memories of the writers' strike, Handel contends, "they don't have the leverage...
...what is known as environmental prevention--banning alcohol in public places, for instance, or restricting alcohol licenses near schools. Prevention officials began working less with teachers and more with cops. In a way, the new strategy worked: fewer kids drink now because it's harder for them to obtain alcohol. But as psychologist Stanton Peele writes in his 2007 book Addiction-Proof Your Child (one of his 10 books on addiction), "When alcohol is presented as impossibly dangerous, it becomes alluring as a 'forbidden fruit' ... The choice between abstinence and excess is not a good one to force on children...
Because alcohol is harder to obtain now than in the '70s and '80s, more kids are delaying their first drink. But most people will drink before 21, and it's a reasonable goal for parents to be there when it happens. "What if a kid has never had alcohol and drinks for the first time at 21?" asks Peele, the author of Addiction-Proof Your Child. "If they haven't developed a capacity to regulate themselves with alcohol at all, you can be headed for trouble...
...What is the illicit good that seniors are willing to subvert University rules to obtain? Tickets to this morning’s Commencement exercises, at which the degrees for thousands of students will be conferred. Each graduating senior is given four tickets to distribute among her parents, extended family, and guests. Any student who would like to bring more than four people to these ceremonies is forced either to rely on the generosity of friends or strangers willing to give extra tickets away, or to offer money for a ticket, breaking University rules. With today’s increasingly complex...
Lately, however, Duncan directed more energy toward his role as California director of Americans for Safe Access, a group of merchants, doctors and patients that aims to make it easier to dispense and obtain marijuana for medical purposes. The organization's central mission: fighting U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raids on dispensaries...