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...made and there is no one else to make it but you." Yet he has no regrets, not even a Walter Mittyish twinge to be back in the movies in a juicy wide-screen part. "I thought that I would miss that," he says, referring to his switch from films to politics. Harking back to his days as Governor of California, he recalls, "Nancy and I looked at each other one night in the living room in Sacramento and said, 'This makes everything we've ever done seem dull as dishwater.' It is the same way here...
...taught its only course focusing on racial-minority matters, it asked black Lawyer Julius LeVonne Chambers to take over in 1982-83. Chambers asked Greenberg to help. At the same time, the course was rescheduled from its usual slot to an intensive three-week January miniterm. The switch and the choice of a white teacher were "insulting," said Muhammad Kenyatta, head of the 125-member Black Law Students Association. Kenyatta has created a major stir on campus by calling for a boycott of the course by students...
...Livergood: "We got 2,000 phone calls an hour. The shuttle was on seven other channels, but they chose to call rather than switch...
...Nation section. A few months ago, shortly after he was assigned to the Press section, Henry and Senior Editor Stephen Smith began to consider a cover story on Communications Mogul Ted Turner. Recalls Henry: "The first thing I did was go to my office and turn on the TV, switch the dial to Turner's Cable News Network and start watching." He finds CNN soothing: "When you're in the middle of some ordeal analyzing breaking news, and you feel your perspective slipping away, and then you watch someone else react to the same news, it snaps...
...Star salaries just went crazy," says Edward Torres, owner of the Aladdin, which made the switch to revues in March. "The performers have absolutely no regard for the casino operator. People don't want to pay $40 or $50 a ticket to see them." Indeed, after Labor Day, only three Vegas casinos, Caesars Palace, the MGM Grand and the Riviera, plan to book headliners, less than half the number often years...