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SENATOR ALAN SIMPSON HAS PROPOSED legislation that would sharply reduce the number of foreign skilled and professional workers who can enter the U.S. [BUSINESS, Feb. 5]. If computer-company executives hate the Simpson bill out of a genuine fear of a technical-talent shortage, the solution is obvious: raise the salaries of computer professionals. In my 30 years as a physicist working in industrial R. and D., I have never seen a genuine, sustained shortage of engineers or scientists in this country. However, I have seen corporate-financed propaganda campaigns with dire predictions of America's coming shortage of high...
...Lakers need Magic, so does Los Angeles, which has seen a devastating earthquake, a riot and the O.J. Simpson trial since Johnson left what Laker fans used to call Showtime. The Forum was sold out for Johnson's return for only the second time all season. The No. 1 Laker fan, Nicholson, was in Miami making a movie, but there were other luminaries: Rob Lowe, Jon Lovitz, Christopher Darden. When Magic came out for warmups, the crowd was on its feet, and when the p.a. system pumped up Randy Newman's old anthem I Love L.A., the crowd shouted...
...jokes about sitcoms like Mr. Belvedere, when From Dusk Till Dawn wears its crumminess as a badge of honor? Moreover, there is the difficulty of producing intelligent satire in a world in which reality at times resembles a series of lame celebrity-sketch conceits--Sonny Bono in Congress, O.J. Simpson peddling testimony on video that he never gave in court. Lorne Michaels had better hope his viewers never discover...
...Simpson, referring to his refusal to bow to his critics and legal adversaries, on a Los Angeles area radio show...
...typical of government priorities that a state prosecutor and a newly appointed state Supreme Court Justice will join Harvard Law Professor Dershowitz in an appeal charade of the still popular and unusual prosecution for the homicides of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson (Crimson, January...