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...proliferation of lawsuits is taking place at hundreds of sites around the country. In Glenwood Landing, New York, the EPA found 235 parties responsible, including not just major corporations but also a film-developing shop and a pizza parlor. One of those parties was Pat Genzale of Franklin Square, New York, a bona fide victim of Superfund's liti-gious excess. Genzale, who was going broke trying to comply with EPA orders to remove waste legally dumped 37 years ago on his family company's land, contracted to have some of the waste hauled to Ohio. The contractor dumped...
...will suggest ways to make the system work. She says one of her first priorities is to reduce the percentage of the monies flowing into lawyers' pockets in litigation. She is also pushing for micro-settlements for thousands of small guilty parties. "Nobody at EPA is after the pizza-parlor guy who may have sent his waste to a municipal landfill," she says. "That's not what Superfund is about." She also hopes to reduce litigation by suggesting, among other solutions, that corporations bypass lawyers by sending their ceos to negotiate with senior EPA officers. "This is not to denigrate...
...open in a Los Angeles karaoke parlor where a Japanese man is crooning Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In. It's a weird image of cross-cultural confusion, but that's not the half of it. The video carrying the sing-along words is a Japanese version of Sergio Leone's first spaghetti western, A Fistful of Dollars, which was, in turn, a knockoff of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, a samurai epic...
Hutch is absent from one of the weekend's most stimulating events -- the Fishbowl, a parlor game in which a group of 28 men and 24 women assemble to ask one another sexually oriented questions. During the session, a fortyish woman wins applause with the sort of inspired reasoning one would expect here: "It's not the size of the wand," she announces in response to no question, "it's the magic...
Toscanini's is one of a kind. The Central Square ice cream mecca is a kind of Herrell's to the MIT set. Real estate is cheaper down Mass. Ave that way, so the ice cream parlor has an airy feel to it, with lots of wood. The ice cream has a sophisticated flair, with a European influence...