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Such clinics now exist at four other St. Paul high schools (Mechanic Arts High has been closed). The results have been dramatic. Between 1977 and 1984, births to female students fell from 59 per thousand to 26 per thousand. Even girls who did become pregnant seemed to benefit from the counseling. At Mechanic Arts High, their dropout rate fell from 45% to 10%, and only 1% had another unwanted pregnancy within two years of the first. The controversial clinic at Chicago's DuSable High School and ones at other schools around the country were modeled after St. Paul's pioneering...
Herb Gardner, author of the 1962 A Thousand Clowns, is the laureate of losers who wage hopeless battles while cracking jokes. He celebrates fighting the system as the way to keep the soul alive. So when he puts two old men on a bench in I'm Not Rappaport, it is not surprising that they are engaging codgers, inspired liars, tattered but gallant knights-errant. They take on the muggers, the drug dealers, the authorities who impose mandatory retirement, all without moving more than a few feet from the bench. Their skirmishes are uproarious. What gives the play...
Just so. Still, there have been moments worth the thousand-and-some pages of skulk and murk. Berlin Game should have been dedicated to divorced men everywhere, because in it Samson's supercilious, upper-class wife Fiona not only defects to the Soviets, but is revealed to be a KGB colonel. Samson and the dreaded Fiona skirmish at a distance in Mexico Set, the second book. At the end he appears to be ahead in this contest that seems a parody of postmarital discord, as he takes in hand Stinnes, a high-ranking Soviet defector...
True to the unstated bylaws of their trade, more than half of the thousand or so journalists who submitted their twelve-page application forms did so at the last possible moment. "We have applications from editorial writers, columnists, talk-show hosts, a music writer, photographers and sports reporters," said Project Public Affairs Coordinator Jack Bass as he and Project Director Eric Johnson waded through the deluge of last-minute entries. Some 5,500 forms had been requested and sent out since Dec. 1 by the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, which is coordinating the selection process...
Equally significant is the growing size of punitive damages, which supposedly serve the same purpose as a don't-ever-do-anything-like-that-again fine of the defendant. Juries sometimes find that a person's actual damages amounted to only a few thousand dollars, yet decide that the corporation at fault should also pay punitive damages in the millions. In one startling case, now awaiting decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, an Alabama couple sued Aetna Life & Casualty Co., claiming that it had wrongfully refused to pay $1,650 of the wife's hospital bill. A jury awarded them...