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YOUR ARTICLE ON JUVENILE CRIME, "NOW for the Bad News: A Teenage Time Bomb" [CRIME, Jan. 15], should have been titled "A Teenage Time Bomb Explodes," because the present is just a shadow of what lies ahead. According to a recent poll, more than 12% of today's teenagers (and 40% of those in high-crime neighborhoods) carry a weapon for protection. Unlike post-Vietnam criminals, who feared prison, police and peers and took care to avoid arrest and notoriety, this new teenage horde from hell kills, maims and terrorizes merely to become known or even sometimes for no reason...
Welles got it. For five years he symbolized America's worship and suspicion of the Artist. He was famous in New York for the Mercury Theater (which he and Houseman started after leaving the WPA) and to the rest of the nation from radio--as the voice of the Shadow, or from the Mischief Night frenzy his The War of the Worlds broadcast stoked...
...work. People knew him only as the fat man, a butt of lame jokes. Unable to finance his dream projects (including a film about the making of The Cradle Will Rock), Welles earned eating money as a narrator and pitchman. He ended as he began. The Voice. The Shadow...
This week Congress turns the focus back to Travelgate when a House committee hears testimony from Watkins, the man who did the travel-office firing. Questions about Mrs. Clinton's credibility in that episode will cast a shadow over the next likely round of accusations in the more serious matter of Whitewater. But those accusations still await the evidence that will draw them into a convincing whole. At last week's Whitewater hearing, Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut complained, "We are no longer concerned with fact finding. We are fully engaged in the presidential-election battle...
...Hasan, in his Pueblo office--a cavern of polished wood, purple curtains and gleaming chandeliers--concedes that his primary motivation was to force Greaves into a merger, but second, if Greaves still refused, to force Health Net to pay far more into its shadow foundation and thereby reduce the capital it could deploy against QualMed's own California operations. As long as Dr. Hasan pressed the lawsuit, Greaves knew, Health Net had no hope of going public. "It was devastating to us," Greaves says. "My name was in the paper every day as a bad guy, a villain...