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...York Times criticized Time Inc.'s decision to hand over material--publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said he was "deeply disappointed"--and said it backed Miller's refusal to testify. Cooper was stoically diplomatic: "There's honor in obeying an order backed by the Supreme Court. There's honor in civil disobedience. I wish Time Inc. had tried to hold out longer against handing over papers that identified my sources. But there's surely principle in both decisions...
Some pundits have countered that an act of civil disobedience by Time Inc.--declining to follow an "unjust" ruling while being prepared to suffer the legal consequence--wouldn't be the same as placing oneself above the law. In Pearlstine's view, "when the courts rule that a citizen's obligation to testify before a grand jury takes precedence over the press's First Amendment right, to me, going against that finding would put us above the law." Others have questioned whether Time Inc. was putting corporate priorities over journalistic ones. Continued refusal to cooperate with the judge would have...
DIED. SHELBY FOOTE, 88, Civil War historian who became a national celebrity--much to his befuddlement--after lending his courtly eloquence, encyclopedic expertise and honeyed Mississippi drawl to 89 appearances in the 1990 Ken Burns TV series on the war; in Memphis, Tenn. He wrote six novels, but his most famous book was a panoramic, three-volume history of the war, written over 20 years with an old-fashioned ink-dipped pen. A crackling storyteller and vivid portraitist, the onetime recluse wowed 40 million viewers of the PBS documentary, garnering critics' kudos and a slew of marriage proposals...
...side, Bowden studied for civil-service exams, poring over study guides and flying across the country to take the state-specific tests. She put many of her hopes in Cambridge. Because she was raised there, she knew she was able to meet CFD’s one-year residency requirement...
...window before a primary—ads paid for by unions, corporations, and non-profit groups cannot even mention the name of a candidate for office within the area where the candidate is running. For instance, if McCain seeks the White House in 2008, then the American Civil Liberties Union, which opposes the ad restriction, would not be able to run a radio spot criticizing the McCain-Feingold law by name in the month before each state’s presidential primary...