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...said the study showed that smokers who quit had lower rates of heart disease than unrepentant smokers, and averred that the Reynolds ad misrepresented the study results. Reynolds officials insisted that their p.r. effort was simply an editorial position and was thus protected by the First Amendment. The FTC's complaint, said a company spokesman, is "a misuse of its investigative powers." Reynolds has retained well-known First Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams as an adviser before a hearing next month by an FTC administrative-law judge on the charges...
...they say, in cases where a Harvard student is accused of date rape, the College's Administrative Board will do little if there is any hint of drug or alcohol use by either individual. The College has, however, formed an ad hoc committee within its Administrative Board to hear cases relating to peer harassment. The problem, says Ellen Porter Honnet, assistant dean of the College for coeducation, is that "two students with different interpretations of the same series of events make it very difficult to determine blame, even though one's sympathies lie with the victim...
...amused pleasure in her success. But it was her own reaction at the time that is astonishing. Apparently feeling that it was time to prepare for independence, Helena took (pounds)25 she had won in a countrywide young-writers contest and, on her own, bought a quarter-page ad in Spotlight, a casting directory. An agent saw the ad and took on the cheeky teenager as a client...
...indeed turned old values upside down, revolutionizing the role of women and transforming American taste, music and sexual mores. "Because of their numbers and their approach to life, Baby Boomers are setting standards for the rest of us," says Jane Fitzgibbon, director of research development for the Ogilvy & Mather ad agency. But in other areas, a lot of shadows have fallen between the dream and the reality...
There is a hint of despair to the yuppies' avid consumerism. "If you can't afford a home, you want the best espresso machine you can buy," observes Los Angeles Psychologist Shelley Taylor, 39. Manhattan Ad Executive Julianne Hastings, 39, wears designer clothes and jets off to the Caribbean for vacations. But she lives in an apartment "the same size as the bedroom I grew up in," and confesses, "I don't know anyone who saves now. Probably we're foolish and will all end up on the poor farm...