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...Linksy says he doubts Melconian's strategy will work. "Is that going to grab someone from Williamstown who knows [Democratic candidate] Sherwood Guernsey? I don't know." He points out that when Conte first won the seat he was a relative rookie to the political field...
...settlements included a $1.75 million payment to a 55-year-old woman who was shot in the stomach during a 1981 drug raid on her Lake Sherwood ranch and a $500,000 payment to a former movie-studio employee who suffered back injuries and was disabled after he was allegedly kicked by a deputy sheriff for failing to follow instructions promptly when stopped for a traffic violation in Marina del Rey in 1982. In 1983 Charles Porter and his wife were leaving a restaurant in City of Commerce when they were detained by deputies investigating what turned...
...Pulitzer, which makes Wilson one of only seven dramatists to win at least twice (the others, besides O'Neill: George S. Kaufman, Robert E. Sherwood, Thornton Wilder, Williams and Edward Albee), is for his play The Piano Lesson, which after extensive regional tryouts is opening on Broadway this week. Outwardly, it has much in common with Fences, which won Wilson the Pulitzer in 1987: it portrays a conflict among members of a black family over whether to hunker down under white racism or risk ambition and disappointment. But unlike Fences, a kitchen-sink drama firmly grounded in reality, Piano Lesson...
Environmentalists are divided on the merits of setting up a market in pollution rights. Among the skeptics is Richard Ayres, chairman of the National Clean Air Coalition. Says he: "This program takes a public resource and turns it into something that can be traded as if it were property." Sherwood Rowland, a chemistry professor at the University of California at Irvine, feels uncomfortable with a program that seems to say "a certain amount of pollution is O.K." He points out that the quantity of pollution permits issued must be reduced periodically if the U.S. expects to improve its air quality...
...Worldwatch Institute; John Chafee, U.S. Senate, Rhode Island; Michael Deland, Council on Environmental Quality; Kathryn Fuller, World Wildlife Fund; Albert Gore, U.S. Senate, Tennessee; Denis Hayes, Earth Day 1990; Thomas Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution; Michael McElroy, Harvard University; Kenneth Piddington, World Bank Environment Department; Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden; F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California at Irvine; James Gustave Speth, World Resources Institute; Mostafa Tolba, United Nations Environment Program; and Alexei Yablokov, Congress of People's Deputies, U.S.S.R...