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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powerhouse in Atlanta's thriving R.-and-B. scene. Dupri, whose real last name is Mauldin, brought his parents, who are divorced, along for the ride: his mother, Tina Mauldin, runs his production company, and Dupri's deal helped his father, Michael Mauldin (a former road manager for various old-school R.-and-B. groups), land a job as vice president of black music at Columbia (he's now president of the division...
...relationship, stupid. We've always accepted the fact that it would be intensified from time to time by the interruptions of various noisy MacGuffins--wacky car chases, imploding and exploding urban structures, the odd psychopath or two. But what we liked was solid, stolid Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) trying to cope with the erratic behavior of his partner, Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), who didn't much care whether he lived or died and therefore courted death with alarming candor...
...that at least a few are paying more attention to the quality of the health care they are subsidizing. The Pacific Business Group on Health, an association of 35 companies that collectively buys $3 billion in health insurance each year, has begun paying for studies comparing health outcomes among various managed-care plans with respect to asthma care and bypass surgery. "It's shameful that people not in the [health care] business have to initiate these studies," says Patricia Powers, the group's executive director. "But we don't see the health-care industry taking on these kinds of projects...
Your chart showing Richard Mellon Scaife's support of various conservative causes [NATION, June 22] mentioned the political biography I wrote on the President, Boy Clinton. I must protest your description of it as an "attack book." That sounds terribly grim. Far more accurate was your reference a few months back to the American Spectator as a "gleefully anti-Clinton magazine" [Nation, April 13]. That captured the spirit. Somehow, political ineptitude can be as amusing as it is dismaying. R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Editor in Chief American Spectator Arlington...
...courts will be used mostly by the varsity team but may become available forgeneral student use at various times, McNeeleysaid...