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...most recent snafu involved George Bush's declaration of a stepped-up war against savings and loan crooks. Just days later, Assistant Attorney General Edward Dennis Jr., a key player in the S&L prosecutions, quit. Dennis' bail-out was only the latest in a series of high-level shake-ups at Justice...
...were imported for, or staged locally to enrich, last month's Berlin Theatertreffen, the city's 27th annual festival of productions from around the German-speaking world. Although the doctrinaire Marxism of Bertolt Brecht, Germany's greatest 20th century playwright, has fallen out of fashion, his zeal to shake up bourgeois spectators still seems to inspire his artistic successors...
...shake-out is at hand. Magazines are going under or changing hands at a dizzying rate. Owen Lipstein's Psychology Today suspended publishing in February; struggling monthlies such as CMP's Long Island Monthly and Time Inc. Magazines' Southpoint went out of business; Rupert Murdoch's debt-ridden News Corp. sold the gossipy Star to the National Enquirer and delayed plans to launch its own weekly newsmagazine...
...admired in the course of her travels include Corazon Aquino, Indira Gandhi and Thatcher. "It's been an interest for me to see how women handle power, authority, people, decisions. We are different in how we approach things. A man can sit around a bar and shake liar's dice and discuss problems. The woman doesn't do that. Decision making, I think, is a bit more formal...
...north Chicago neighborhood where he was born. Somewhere in between is his present house, where he lives with his wife Annette and their three children: Rachel, 10, Gabriel, 7, and Eve, 3. "I do regard the law as a noble calling," he elaborates. "But I can't shake the notion that the law is coming ((comin')) up short in its inability to deal with intimate human situations...