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Despite their confident use of statistics, graphs and maps to limn the future, city planners have no claim on prescience. They depend instead on an all too fallible blend of private intuition and public persuasion; theirs is not a profession for the timid. Most persuasive of them all, at least...
Pretty standard stuff for the man who stands near the head of the richest class of entertainers the world has ever known. But there are some things that are different about Elton John. For one thing, he will not join the exodus of rock stars who are leaving Britain to...
Crime on Her Mind edited by Michele B. Slung. 380 pages. Pantheon. $10. To support her blind husband, the heroine throws propriety to the winds and enters a "profession which was not only a harassing and exhausting one for a woman, but by no means free from grave personal risks...
Brushing aside the Fairfax County bar's contention that its price list was merely advisory, Chief Justice Warren Burger found that "the fee schedule was enforced through the prospect of professional discipline from the state bar. [A] naked agreement was clearly shown, and the effect on prices is plain." Such naked agreements were long common in bar associations; 34 states once had some kind of minimum fee schedule covering legal services. But in recent years the number has dropped to 18, as lawyers began to worry that they might indeed be subject to antitrust laws. The traditional theory...
The warmth of their welcome will certainly reassure Vietnamese doctors about their new homeland. But the refugees must still surmount some major obstacles before they can practice their profession. Like other foreign-trained physicians-who now constitute more than one-fifth of the 300,000 doctors practicing in the U.S...