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...everyone in the press, including Malcolm supporters, was happy with a decision that seemed to condone outright inventions -- between quotation marks -- in works of nonfiction. But the possibility threatened by Masson's appeal to the Supreme Court -- a draconian definition from the bench of how journalists should write their stories -- seemed even worse. A number of news organizations, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors and Time Warner, filed amicus briefs in support of the New Yorker...
Playing on the road is always difficult, but playing in the unfriendly confines of Brown's Paul Bailey Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center that night was especially tough. The heckling given the Harvard players, particularly from behind their bench, bordered on the obscene. The Crimson, however, managed to block out the crowd's taunts and staged a dramatic second-half rally...
Since taking office 27 months ago, the Vice President has sat on the bench like a sixth man, anxiously watching the action and filling in for the starters only as necessary. If he is not ready to step in for George Bush, he has taken advantage of every opportunity to learn on the job. Even as late- night comedians make him a laughingstock, Quayle has quietly established himself as the Administration's point man on a handful of issues. He has become a vigorous White House envoy to constituencies the President ignores. He has shrewdly begun to lay the groundwork...
...resignation as White House chief of staff, one Washington insider is perfectly placed to succeed him. Craig Fuller, who served as Bush's top aide during the Reagan years before being shoved aside by Sununu after the 1988 election, has spent the past few years on the bureaucratic back bench working for a Washington public relations firm. Fuller is reminding acquaintances of his continuing ties to the Oval Office by confiding that the President is privately very concerned about the Sununu flap...
...could be on a brass plaque near the trading floor: on Wednesday, April 17, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 3000 for the first time in history. But what does the long-anticipated bench mark really mean? Statistically, the Dow's performance was a thing of wonder. The index first closed at more than 1000 on Nov. 14, 1972, took more than 14 years to close above 2000, then raced to last week's record-breaking 3004.46 close in little more than four years, barely missing a beat even during the crippling crash in October 1987. The milestone demonstrates...