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Too many TV reunions wind up like a high school reunion: A good idea in theory, but in fact it's kind of depressing.Fans of "Cagney & Lacey," the Emmy-winning series that ran from 1982-1988, will want "Cagney & Lacey: The Return" to mean but one thing: The two intrepid cops are back on the beat.Alas, too much of this TV movie, which will air on CBS (Channel 11) Sunday at 9 p.m., is concerned with tweaking the plot so that the two do get back together. The teleplay by Terry Louise Fisher and Steve Brown offers more exposition than action, expending a lot of wasted energy reminding us that Cagney could be a loose cannon and that the partnership was, as Cagney repeatedly exults, "great."

Robert Lacey's "Grace" is a book that can't seem to decide what it wants to be.Is it a balanced biography of Grace Kelly? A sex-filled expose of a Hollywood starlet? Maybe an investigation into the car wreck that claimed the life of Princess Grace?Unfortunately, it comes closest to being a tawdry strip-show. Mr. Lacey most often exhibits a prurient interest in the sex life of the woman who would marry Prince Ranier of Monaco.Mr. Lacey's account of Kelly's childhood lacks substance. He barely scratches the surface of the character of Jack Kelly, Grace's bricklayer father, who he paints as having enormous influence on the person Grace Kelly was to become.

SMITH ISLAND -- Its square footage is little more than some living rooms, but the grand opening last week of Duke Marshall's Drum Point Market was like Harborplace and Wal-Mart combined.Here in Tylerton, remotest of the three watermen's communities on this mid-Chesapeake island, a store has always been more than a place to shop.Listen to an old woman's description of a store -- one of four here when she was a child and the population of Tylerton was near an all-time high of some 200 souls:There was confectionery on one side; hardware, shoes and oilskins in another part; groceries in another.

Lacey EdgeSchool: Oakland Mills High SchoolHometown: ColumbiaAge: 17Lacey serves as vice president of the school's Student Government Association and belongs to the National Honor Society. She is head of Peer Leaders of Oakland Mills, a group of students trained to counsel elementary and middle school students to say no to drugs and resist peer pressure. She has been part of that group for four years.Lacey runs long distance and is a shot-putter for the school's track team. Outside of school, she swims competitively.

"A Home of Our Own" is an Up With People! concert without the Muzak. Or the People. But it's got plenty of Up!It's one of those spirit-of-the-little-guy numbers that makes poverty look like some Disney theme park land, exotic and colorful but not really dangerous. It's not Pirates of the Caribbean but Indigents of Idaho. The only things missing are the squalor, despair, malnutrition, self-loathing, self-destructiveness, depression and violence. It's poverty with the boring parts cut out.Constructed as a memoir set in the early '60s by an oldest son Shayne (Edward Furlong)

Just where does Mark Henry, chef at the Milton Inn in Sparks, find those delectable vine-ripened tomatoes and exquisite just-picked cantaloupes?What is Rudolph Speckamp's secret source of ingredients for that scrumptious chocolate triomphe offered at Rudys' 2900 in Finksburg?And where does Nancy Longo find those succulent thick-cut pork chops she serves at Pierpoint, her Fells Point restaurant?Let's rephrase the questions: Where do Baltimore's best food emporiums get the distinctive ingredients that make dining out so memorable?

The law authorizing a special prosecutor to investigate charges against high-level members of an administration expired Dec. 15. Earlier this month, the Justice Department decided it would not authorize such a prosecutor to take on the case of an Italian bank's Atlanta branch that illegally funneled funds and credits to Iraq's benefit. The department did so on the advice of a former federal judge, Frederick B. Lacey, who had conducted a preliminary investigation into the situation.Some in Congress, especially Rep. Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, and some newspapers, including The Sun, had expressed grave concerns about what has been called "Iraqgate."

IN THE first week of October, the refusal to name a independent counsel in the Iraqgate scandal was becoming an issue in the presidential campaign.To take off the heat, Attorney General William Barr asked former Federal Judge Harold Tyler if he would serve as a "special" -- not independent -- counsel.The timing of the assignment was fishy. "He didn't seem to be in that much of a hurry," recalls Judge Tyler. Barr wanted a report delayed until after the election, well into December -- when the act authorizing special prosecutors was to expire.

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General William P. Barr ha rejected congressional demands for an independent prosecutor to investigate whether the government had committed a crime in a bank fraud case involving loans to Iraq. He asserts that the Justice Department had acted properly in every aspect of the politically contentious case.Mr. Barr's refusal to seek a judicially appointed prosecutor in the case involving the Atlanta branch of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro followed the recommendation of Frederick B. Lacey, his own counsel.

WASHINGTON -- A former federal judge, closing a probe h called "virtually perfect," cleared the Justice Department and the Bush administration yesterday in their handling of the Iraqi loan scandal and said no independent prosecutor should be named to investigate the affair.The conclusions by Frederick B. Lacey, now a private lawyer in New Jersey, promptly gained the endorsement of Attorney General William P. Barr.With the law that authorizes independent prosecutors to examine high-level wrongdoing due to expire next Tuesday, it is clear the Bush administration will end without an outside inquiry into the way it reacted to the illegal lending of billions of dollars in U.S. bank funds to Iraq -- money that Baghdad used to build up its military before the Persian Gulf war.Yesterday's developments immediately triggered harshly fTC worded protests from Democrats in Congress, who vowed to consult with President-elect Bill Clinton on what to do next.