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...called his passengers' attention to the Beverly Hills Hotel during a tour of the fabled neighborhood of the stars, a policeman stopped him for invading the exclusive area. That incident in July and others like it sent three tour companies to court in protest. Last week Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Leon Savitch allowed Beverly Hills to continue barring buses carrying tourists eager to glimpse the likes of Gary Grant or Lucille Ball, or at least to see where they lived...
...five years at the being Harvard field hockey coach Edle Mabery has had her fair share of success. She's beaten nationally-ranked teams, she's beaten superior Ivy teams and she's beaten previously undefended teams...
Writer Franco Solinas (The Battle of Algiers) and Director Costa-Gavras (Z) know how to use movie archetypes to manipulate political loyalties. The Israeli prosecutor has the superior smile of a bureaucrat conquistador. The Palestinian is tall, thin, suntanned, nice to babies; and he has unflinching crystal blue eyes (would they lie to you?). And yet, the film bends over backward to seem fair to its swarm of social and personal ambiguities. The result is a well-meaning muddle that refuses to come alive. The pace is languid when it ought to fall into the march step of melodrama. Hanna...
...more local school systems, nine more are considering specific legislation, and 29 are studying the idea. But the jury is still out on the potential impact. In Los Angeles, 200 of the city's 25,000 teachers last year were awarded $1,008 extra for superior performances and extra work; the program is generally well received by the teaching staff. It has also worked for more than 30 years in the Ladue School District of suburban St. Louis, and more than 20 years in Dalton, Ga. Darien, Conn., however, halted its three-year experiment in merit pay because...
...latest Belfast atrocity: I.R.A. terrorists mailed the head of a British officer to his wife, who joined the Women's Peace Movement and was later raped by the men who had killed her husband. The children in the class are more confused than appalled; the teacher's superior politely suggests that she has reached the age of retirement. In a similar tale, a woman refuses to keep silent about another Protestant-Catholic bloodletting. Her embarrassed companions believe she is overwrought and exaggerating...