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Johnson's victory is one of the latest and largest in an accelerating movement by angry victims and their relatives who want a larger slice of justice. Lawmakers are backing them up. Thirty-six states have created victims' compensation programs to repay some of the medical costs and lost income. Last week the nine-member President's Task Force on Victims of Crime urged all states to undertake such programs. "We've got to raise the status of the victim," said Lois Haight Herrington, who headed the task force. The report pointed out that the prey...
...Plus ($1,330). The hardy bestseller of the late '70s is also the hardy bestseller of the early '80s: 700,000 have been sold; 270,000 in 1982 alone. With so many cheaper and more sophisticated machines available, why does the Apple II still hold the biggest slice of the $1,000-to-$2,000 pie? Software. More programs are available for this six-year-old machine than for any other single computer, some 16,000 in all. Also more user groups, more space in the computer magazines, more plug-in expansion units, more peripheral devices. It used...
...expense of the wedding. Acceptable gifts are $100 for a single guest, $150 per couple. For $18,000, the hall provided the Takahashis with food, invitations, thank-you notes, photographs, kimono and formal wear. The 5-ft. wedding cake, however, was cardboard, except for the bride's traditional slice...
...introduction to his latest collection, Jules Feiffer describes the slice of America the cartooned pair was meant to symbolize: "Greenwich Village make-out men, wine and cheese parties...bosses who thought it was a violation of friendship to ask for a raise, anxious fathers sand possessive mothers. Village men and women explaining themselves in an endless babble of self-interest, self-loathing, and evasion." Bernard and Huey, Feiffer expains, were "Robert Benechley heroes launched into the Age of Freud...
...rather highly publicized event entitled "Common Ground" will be taking place this weekend. It is billed as offering "Perspectives on the Middle East." Yet it in fact offers an extremely limited view of the Middle East. "Common Ground" will be presenting, at best, a narrow slice...