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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION TheraDate Offers Match With Others In Therapy BY BETH WHITEHOUSE NEWSDAY This is an idea that could have been dreamed up by the hyper-neurotic Woody Allen: You go toa therapist, confess to being in a funk over your bad romantic luck, and your therapist tells you there’s a waytofix you up with another person in counseling. The question is, would you goonthatblind date? TheraDate, a new company that promises to match therapy clients who are emotionally and psychologically compatible,is betting you would — and, in fact, would pay for the chance. Psychoanalyst Frederick Levenson, who practices on LongIsland and in Manhattan, has begun marketing TheraDate in New York ine and other publications.“We're still astartup,” Levensonsaid. TheraDate is striving to amass a pool of 750 to 1,000 clients in therapy in the New York area before beginning to match people. Although the numberof people who havesigned onis now only in the dozens,the idea has raised enough eyebrowsto be featured on “Good Morning High Court Stayed Conservative Five-to-four often the vote in recentsession,includingin ‘liberal’ wins BY CHARLES LANE imprisonmentand death. As in past years, the justices THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON —The Supreme Court term that ended last week will be remembered for one dramatic new developmentin the law on church-state relations and two crucial about-faces in the law af- gave law enforcementauthorities and other government officials broad latitude to fightillegal drugs and generally to define threats to public safety. They tempered that with strong support for freedom-of- “The majority from the Bush v. Gore case continues to be very close together on a number of very important and divisive issues,” said Elliot Mincberg, legal director of People for the American Way. That was the majority lineup in the clearest conservative victory of Andin a year in whichSept. 11 limited the scope of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Once again, and the response to it by President they ruled that state sovereignty the term,the school vouchers case, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. “The transition away from the ‘wall between church andstate’ can trumpfederal authority. and toward ‘equality’ as an orga- fecting the death penalty. Bush and Congress somewhat overshadowed the work of the judiciary, another terrorist episode — mail-borne anthrax bacteria — forced the court to hold arguments outside its Capitol Hill building for thefirst time since it occupied the eee structure in Yet, forall that, the themeof the term was continuity. The five con- servative and four liberal justices, who have been serving together since 1994 — longer than any other group since the 1820s — pursued manyof the sameissues that have concerned them in previous years, with the same generally, but not exclusively, right-of-center results. Forthefirsttime, the court gave its approval to taxpayer-funded as- sistance, or vouchers, for students to attendreligious schools. The court prohibited the execution of mentally retarded capital offenders, as well as state sentencing schemes under which judges, notjuries, find the facts that make the difference between life A7 Sunday, June 30, 2002 speech claims. They repeatedly “You can’t just label this court as lockstep conservative,” said Tom Goldstein, a lawyer whospecializes in SupremeCourt litigation. “A lot of constitutional questions are in play.” As statistics compiled by Gold- stein demonstrate, the key dynamic on the court remains the struggle for the votes of the centerright swing justices — Sandra Day O'Connor and, to a lesser extent, Anthony Kennedy — on a court that is often polarized between a conservative group made up of Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, and a liberal group composed of Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. Of the 79 cases decided during the term, 21 were 5 to 4 cases, with the most common five-member nizing metaphoron the establishmentclause is now complete,” Yale Law School professor Akhil Amar said. Exec Who Gave World Hula Hoop,Frisbee,Dies THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS COSTA MESA,Calif. — Arthur “Spud” Melin, co-founder of the toy company that introduced the world to the Frisbee, Hula Hoop and otherfaddish gemsofAmerican popculture, has died. He was 77 and had Alzheimer’s disease. Melin, whostarted toy giant Wham-O in 1948 with his boyhood friend Richard Knerr, died Friday. “Nosensation has ever swept the country like the Hula Hoop,” author Richard Johnson wrote in his book American Fads. It “remains the standard against whichall national crazes are measured.” Melin and Knerr started with slingshots and named their mail-order companyafter the sound a slingshot made when its projectile struck a target. They branched into other sporting goods, including pellet guns and crossbows. But O'Connorgavethe liberals a They added toys in 1955, when building in- fifth vote in four cases, and spector Fred Morrison sold them plastic flying disc he had developed after watching Yale University students toss pie tins. Wham-O began Kennedy and O’Connorjoined in the liberals’ greatest victory of the term, Atkinsv. Virginia, the ruling that abolished executions of the moderately mentally retarded. That case effectively abandoned the position the court had taken in 1989, when it said that only two states had banned thepractice, insufficient evidence of a national consensus that it was a form of “cruel and unusual punishment.” Those who may have expected O'Connor to embrace a consistently critical view of capital punishment must have been disappointed in her dissenting opinion in Ringv. Arizona, which lamented the fact that the decision would majority being a conservative one generate a huge, and in her view, made up of Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy and Thomas. basically futile flood of death row appeals. selling the disc they called the “Pluto Platter” two years later before modifying it and renamingit the “Frisbee.” “Wedidn’t want it used as a toy, we wanted it to bea sport,” Melin said in a 1998 interview with the Pasadena Star-News. In 1958, as Frisbee sales took off, an Australian toy manufacturer visited Wham-O’s factory in the Los Angeles suburb of San Gabriel. He gave company officials an impromptu lesson in how to use a rattan hoop imported from Australia. Wham-0 began selling the Hula Hoop a short ae later and eventually would sell 25 million of lem. Melin retired when Wham-O was sold to Kransco Group Cos. in 1982. Mattel Inc. bought the company in 1994. A group of investors then bought Wham-O back from Mattel in 1997 for about $20 million. America,” National Public Radio and, of course, in Psychol- ogy Today. And it has some mental health professionals warning “buyer beware.” DILEARD’S- EXCLUSIVE ESTEE_LAUDER The Brightest People: The conceptis that “The people using psychotherapy to improve their lives are some of the brightest, most verbally adept and success-oriented people in America,” Levensonsaid. They would be more likely to have successful relationships with others who recognize the value ofself-reflection and are prone to talk about their feelings, he said. And who better to match thera up than therapists, who. do fom‘iage counseling every F dayand whom Levenson “relationship experts"? “Tt sort of was myidea,butit really came from patients,” Levenson said. “Years ago, I was treating a surgical resident, a good-looking young guy, whosaid, I keep seeing these really attractive women leaving your office. Why can’t you fix me up with somebody who's also working on herself?’In fact, Levenson was treating a lawyer who was ageappropriate and the samereligion. “I said, ‘I'd like to doit, but I don’t think it’s kosher.’ From people I know who have Hoe it, it blows up in their face.” But, by asking therapists only to fill out paperwork on T E Yoursfor just 19.50 with any Estée Lauder purchase. Worth 80.00 their clients — the matching will be done by TheraDate’s panel of contracted therapists — noindividual therapist has to worry about a match back- firing, he said. Levenson rec- ommends clients pay the therapist one session fee to fill out the form. “We also tell them that it wouldbe totally unethical to let insurance payforit.” Avoid the Bull: While a person on an interviewfor a dating service wouldpaint the rosiest picture, the therapist knows teavtur & the truth about the client's strengths and weaknesses, Levensonsaid. “Ergo, we avoid the bull factor,” he said. 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