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...years ago, someone sent Pamela Liapakis a batch of literature inviting her to join EMILY's List. But Liapakis was preoccupied. Her own 54,000-member Association of Trial Lawyers of America was busy showering Democrats with money. Lawyers poured $2.5 million into Clinton's re-election effort last year, more than any other occupational group. (Liapakis' own firm gave $100,000 to the Democratic Party.) The trial lawyers' association has been trying to beat back an array of state and federal tort-reform measures, but, despite its best efforts, a bill limiting damages in product-liability suits cleared Congress...
Every year, a new batch of seniors dresses up in their best business attire and subjects themselves to what is often a grueling, stressful and disappointing process: recruiting...
...fanfare--or at least as much fanfare as could be drummed up for programs built around former stars of Beverly Hills, 90210 and The Partridge Family--only four remain; all are struggling. Even the more established shows have seen their ratings fall. Ricki Lake, whose success prompted the current batch of trash-talking clones, has seen her ratings fall 10% since 1994. Rivera's numbers have dropped even more steeply, 20%, which may indicate that his conversion is not 100% altruistic. Other shows in similar straits--including Mark Walberg's and Jerry Springer's--either have announced or are considering...
...chlorofluorocarbon sprays. Some arrivals could not take the puckish hint that this was a time for public-policy grinds to blow off steam, but others fell right into the outlaw spirit. "I always smoked when I was pregnant," announced G. Gordon Liddy's wife to a companion. A batch of half-looped Young Turks at the bar cheered as the jukebox played the Eagles' Get Over It, a slam against self-discovery: "Bitch about the present and blame it on the past./ I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little a----." Up at Renaissance, things were...
...Noonan credit much of its success to veteran animal trainer Karl Lewis Miller--"a genius," the director says, at bringing out the character of his charges. Miller and his staff raised 60 pigs by hand to gain their trust. It took 26 weeks to educate the first batch, by which time they had outgrown their optimal cuteness; the training was eventually shortened to 13 weeks. In all, 48 pigs appeared onscreen as Babe...