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...against them on the basis of their religion. In this case, the form of the discrimination seems to be...temptation, temptation everywhere! There's a precedent at a public school: last year, in a little-noticed local ruling, a judge said the University of Nebraska had to allow Douglas Rader, a devout Christian fretting over the dorms' laxity, to live off campus. The Nebraska case was the first of its kind...
...Waterworld weren't an original script (by Peter Rader, David Twohy and at least four uncredited rewriters), it would be the kind of film that makes you want to read the book it was based on, to find all the rich detail the movie leaves out. For despite the toil of hundreds of artisans, Waterworld is a series of hints and promises, weird turns and blind alleys...
...spotty as the indigent-defense system is, however, middle-income defendants who don't qualify for court-appointed counsel (the standards vary from state to state) can sometimes end up worse off than the poor. Carolyn Rader, a defense attorney in Indianapolis, says it is common for such clients to deplete their savings or go into debt if they face criminal charges...
Wrong. but at least he doesn't have to pay for another trial. Earlier this year, Indianapolis lawyer Rader represented a disabled factory worker in his 50s who had been charged with raping an eight-year-old girl. His household income was about $25,000 a year, and his life savings totaled $10,000. The man's defense was that he is impotent, and he underwent a medical test that bolstered that claim. The test cost about $2,000; deposition and expert fees cost another $2,000; Rader accepted $6,000 rather than her customary $10,000 for the case...
...same time it has made the lengthy commercials even more attractive to stations: when ad revenues are slack, it is hard to turn down an advertiser who wants to purchase a big chunk of time. "The more financially pressed stations are, the less they're offended by infomercials," says Rader Hayes, a consumer economist at the University of Wisconsin. In a survey released in January by the National Association of Television Program Executives, 90% of station officials who responded said they have run at least some infomercials, and 49% said their use of them is likely to grow...