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TIME reported last fall on a study by Palo Alto, Calif., attorney Von Packard and investigators Robert Bauman and Dina Rasor of the death certificates of all Californians who died in nursing homes from 1986 through 1993. In more than 7% of the cases, lack of food or water, untreated bedsores or infections were listed as a cause of death. This probe led Grassley to order the GAO to California to investigate. The GAO's medical review of 62 residents who died in trouble-prone California nursing homes showed that 34 of them received poor care that probably contributed...
...least from a moral and theological point of view. As the American space program began in the '50s, rockets routinely exploded on the launch pad and collapsed into their own ruins like defunct Las Vegas casinos. The nation's leading rocketmeister was the boy wonder of Peenemunde, Wernher von Braun, inventor of Hitler's Vengeance Rocket, the V-2. (I Aim at the Stars was the title of Von Braun's memoir; comedian Mort Sahl's suggested subtitle was "But Sometimes I Hit London...
...About 300 of Wall Street's and Hollywood's most powerful and famous (and about 100 of their glittery offspring). This year: Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Andy Grove, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Diane Sawyer (a longtime friend of Allen's), John Malone, Geraldine Laybourne, Diane von Furstenberg and Jerry Levin...
...though. Director Daisy von Scherler Mayer and the screenwriters treat the original tale like a bottle of Perrier left too long uncapped; the effervescence evaporates. Fine actors (Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne) get swallowed whole, and the child stars are, shall we say, not swathed in charm. Madeline does finally face up to her orphanhood (a touching little scene), but by then the film is a lost cause, and Bemelmans' Madeline a lost soul...
Houston has funding for four more years of outdoor productions, though no operas have been set yet. Next January the stage will be moved indoors for a production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, starring Frederica von Stade. Several other opera houses have expressed interest in this new approach, and no doubt similar stages will soon be under construction. But the best thing about Houston's contemporary Carmen is not so much the modular stage, impressive though it is, as what Assaf has done with it. How do you get twentysomethings to fall for opera? The answer...