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...subsequent virulence. Sources close to the family surmise that the elder Haft, who had heart problems in 1991, regards his son's eagerness to take over as an unwelcome reminder of his own mortality. The Donnybrook also puzzles investors on Wall Street, where Dart stock, a highflyer in the '80s, has been languishing. Beset by growing competition and the sluggish economy, Dart saw its profits fall to $3.5 million in its latest fiscal year, down 44% from the previous period...
COURTROOM CARNAGE Federal judges have been so jittery about courthouse crime that since the early '80s, most federal courts have been outfitted with airport-style X-ray machines, designed to detect concealed weapons. Even so, the bloodletting continues. On Aug. 6, a man scheduled to be sentenced for drug dealing stormed the federal courthouse in Topeka, Kansas, firing two guns . and lobbing pipe bombs. Before Jack McKnight, 37, killed himself by detonating explosives strapped to his body, he killed a security guard and wounded five people. "There's now a tacit assumption that people can vent their frustrations almost anywhere...
...look at it from the point of view of a veteran aerobics instructor facing a shrinking class: in the '80s, a time of exceeding passion for highly defined physiques (you could all but see the viscera on some specimens), even our old, prematurely dark-haired President, a man known as the Great Communicator, joined the crowd and pumped iron. In the '90s we are led by a young, prematurely gray-haired fellow who jogs, yes, but most days turns a deaf ear to those who would slow his knife and fork. Call him the Great Sweet Potater...
...that couch potatoes are proliferating -- their percentage has been constant for the past two decades. It's that the number of people taking up vigorous activity seems to have crested in the mid-'80s, according to, among other surveys, the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. No wonder there is revolt in the air. "The god Narcissus ruled in the '80s," says a middle-aged publicist in Los Angeles, a man who is sensitive about his 15-lb. , gain and would prefer to keep his name to himself. "He was the least powerful and most uninteresting...
When the movement peaked in England in the 1970s, "skinhead" was more a punk style statement than a racial stance; "Nazi" skins were just a nasty subgroup, devoted to the bullying of immigrants. Both strains crossed the Atlantic, but in the late '80s, propelled in part by youthful embitterment at the recession economy, the Nazi versions of the skinhead strutted through such cultural crossroads as San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. They attracted immediate attention for their coiffure, dedication to British Oi! music, black Doc Martens boots and a ferocious appetite for violence -- against blacks, gays and Jews. Sometimes the fury...