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Fair enough. Anybody who follows the news knows all about the actor's longtime battle with drugs and his myriad legal wrangles. The son of heralded underground director Robert Downey (Putney Swope), he got small movie roles until a season-long stint on Saturday Night Live served as a springboard into "brat-pack" films in the mid-'80s. The brilliance he displayed in such roles as the druggy Gen-Xer in 1987's Less Than Zero and later in his portrayal of Charlie Chaplin deepened the tragedy as he began spiraling down into a cycle of drug arrests, jail sentences...
Bagaric, a doctor by training and a former general of the Croatian Bosnian medical corps, used his medical experience during the war as a springboard to discuss methods of resolving and preventing future wars...
...Harvard] is a springboard into the upper class," says Morgan. "It becomes very hard to motivate against that...
...check on legislative power. Yet the initiative system has become more than a check; in the last generation, the voting public has done more than anyone in the state capital to enact innovative legislation. While the governorship is still a vaunted position--if only as a potential springboard to the Presidency--the State House and Senate have done little more than keep the books balanced and administer existing programs...
...students themselves chose to inform allthe students that there had been behavior that wasless than professional," Oriol said. "It isbecoming a springboard for discussion aboutprofessionalism and alcohol...