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From a legal standpoint, headline-happy prosecutors may have committed entrapment in their sting operation against the mayor. But to argue that that makes Barry an innocent victim is to miss the point entirely. The legal ramifications of the Barry trial are infinitely less important than the moral ones. A liar, an adulterer and a drug user, Barry sold out his constituents--particularly the children who so desperately need positive role models...
Saxophonist-composer-bandleader Gerry Mulligan, 63, is particularly impressed by Wynton's developing skills as a composer and his "sensibilities as a bandleader." Those sensibilities were sorely tested in 1985, when Branford jumped ship to join Sting's rock group. That not only destroyed a band style based on the tight interplay between the two brothers, but also sparked press articles that turned the breakup into a bitter public row. The dust has settled, but relations remain cool between them. "He didn't kill nobody, you know," shrugs Wynton...
...bring an end to discrimination. They only kept the more overt forms from showing. We've learned that changing the rules doesn't necessarily alter attitudes. Stereotypical, outmoded and confining images of women, not at all suited to the reality of their actual lives, still pop up and sting...
...revenues: $3.4 billion), based in 420-acre Universal City, Calif., is like a department store of American amusement. MCA's Universal divisions have produced such blockbuster films as The Sting, Jaws, E.T. and Back to the Future, as well as such TV programs as Major Dad and Murder, She Wrote. Universal Studios Tour in California is the third most popular amusement park in the world, after Disney's two U.S. attractions. MCA Records is a hit factory with platinum stars that include Tom Petty, Bobby Brown and Fine Young Cannibals. In book publishing, the company owns G.P. Putnam's Sons...
...fancy logos like Giorgio, Gucci, Nike and Louis Vuitton. A chic boutique? No, the recipient was the Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women in Los Angeles. And the merchandise was $1 million worth of counterfeit name-brand T shirts, sweat shirts and running suits seized by lawmen in a sting operation last December. Instead of destroying the phony duds, city attorney James K. Hahn launched an unusual salvage operation.With the O.K. of firms whose names were pirated, the city divided the 43,000 items among eight community-service organizations. "Come winter those things are going to be very, very handy...