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Farber, whose reporting helped lead to the trial of Dr. Mario Jascalevich for the murders of three patients at a small New Jersey hospital, was jailed for contempt of court after refusing to turn over his notes to the trial judge. Farber was freed last month just before the jury found Jascalevich "not guilty," but the New Jersey Supreme Court had upheld the reporter's contempt conviction, along with the fines levied against the Times for refusing to surrender its own documents on the case...
...name of Coriolanus by defeating the Volscians at Corioli. He is a Roman of boundless valor and steely pride. The patricians put him up for consul of Rome and the plebeians grudgingly accede, though Coriolanus refuses to do any political truckling to secure their favor. Furious at his open contempt, the plebs rescind their approval and have him banished from the city...
...other nations as equals generally means telling them they are inferiors. Bringing influence to bear on behalf of virtuous regimes means spending one's time dressing down regimes that are less perfect. In the end, what this reflects is not only a hatred of totalitarian principles, but a personal contempt for the cultures that embrace them, and perhaps for the peoples of developing nations in general. Thus this sort of remark on a trip Moynihan took to Peking...
SPRINGFIELD--The Supreme Court's refusal to review New York Times reporters Myron Farber's contempt conviction for withholding confidential files leaves "a festering problem," Farber said yesterday...
...Supreme Court's refusal Monday to review a contempt citation against The York Times and its reporter, Myron Farber, for failing to divulge the names of confidential news sources, sent a chill down the spine of a Nieman Fellow here who said he could have become a second Myron Farber...