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...School Dean James Vorenberg '49 resigned last week with an impressive record; however, recent events show that it is time for new leadership. He can be proud of the stamp he has left on the Law School, particularly in the generous loan forgiveness program for students who enter public service. Vorenberg's attempts to hire more women and minority professors are both laudable and have set out an agenda for the next dean...
...named Nick Derringer, to be introduced in a segment next week. In addition, Bochco has signed a development deal with ABC that calls for him to create ten more series over the next nine years. Even if only two or three of the shows make it, Bochco's stamp will be on a sizable chunk of the prime-time schedule for much of the next decade...
...That stamp, first seen in his groundbreaking police show Hill Street Blues, has changed the face of TV. Unlike simplistic TV dramas of the past, Bochco shows typically feature a medley of interwoven plots and characters. They grapple with tough social issues, yet leap from scenes of intense drama to raucous comedy. They relentlessly push network standards of good taste, often with a schoolboy penchant for gross-out humor and sexual fetishes. "Steve has . always been one to break the rules," says former NBC Chairman Grant Tinker. "He does it more cleverly, even diabolically, than anyone else. He rocks...
Ronald Reagan last week vowed that if a bill containing the plant-closing provision "is unloaded on my desk, I will stamp it REJECT and ship it back to where it was made." The House nonetheless fought off an attempt to strip the provision from the bill and then passed the legislation 312 to 107. The Senate votes this week; the only question is whether the trade bill, three years in the making and supported by groups as diverse as organized labor, farmers and the oil industry, will pass by a vote larger than the two-thirds necessary to override...
...drama. He followed up that success with the tony courtroom drama L. A. Law and the provocative "dramedy" Hooperman. Bochco is already the most influential and iconoclastic TV producer of the '80s. Now, with a lucrative deal to create ten shows for ABC, he is poised to put his stamp...