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Every spring and fall, the chief executives of some 50 of America's largest corporations get together without fanfare for a quiet weekend meeting of the Business Council at the posh Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Va. The agenda includes tennis, golf, business discussions and briefings from top Government officials behind closed doors. TIME National Economic Correspondent David Beckwith attended last weekend's session and filed this report...
...weeks ago to ask him to handle his appeal. Why Dershowitz? To be sure, he is smart, energetic and an expert in criminal law, but so are others. What made Dershowitz the right choice is that he has become, perhaps, the top lawyer of last resort in the country-a sort of judicial St. Jude-the mouthpiece, or patron saint, of hopeless cases. Says Dershowitz: "I play the devil's advocate in court, sometimes representing true devils...
...juvenile judge's disposal. The system would be far better off if jurisdiction for status offenders were transferred to a comprehensive social service agency that would work with the families involved and prescribe a wide variety of correctional solutions--among them special education, community work and, as a last resort, incarceration...
...complete a radical transformation of Playboy Enterprises. The firm was forced to sell its highly profitable British gambling casinos, and also had to drop out of an Atlantic City hotel-casino when New Jersey authorities denied it a gambling license. Moreover, money-losing ventures, including Oui magazine and two resort-hotels, have been sold, and the firm is negotiating the sale of its book operations...
Bell said that while the federal government should gradually diminish its aid to the disadvantaged and enforce civil rights legislation only "as a last resort," it should continue to provide funds for research in universities...