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Educators contend that the copyright regulations are confusing, but some schools are trying to comply. Copyright warnings are posted on the sides of machines on the Williams and Yale campuses. The A.A.P. has handed out a set of guidelines drawn up by the House Judiciary Committee. "Brevity and spontaneity" are key standards. Small extracts may be duplicated for each student in a class when a professor comes across printed material that might augment his lectures. "But you can't do it semester after semester," says Risher. "And you can't make up anthologies. You have to get permission...
...lonely bush hospital, Merriweather had to contend with ailments brought from the outside world, such as tuberculosis and syphilis, as well as malnutrition, leprosy, maulings by lions or a scalp fungus caused by a lack of washing. In the cruel Kalahari Desert, explains the doctor, "water, if you find it, is for drinking, not washing." As an ordained clergyman, Merriweather also performed funeral services for patients who died...
...Indonesia were thrown by the verse "All we like sheep have gone astray" (Isaiah 53:6). Reason: most of the Dani had never seen a sheep. "So," says Linguist David Scoville, "we thought of using a pig as a 'cultural equivalent.' " But then the missionaries had to contend with the succeeding verse, believed by Christians to foreshadow the Crucifixion, describing a lamb that is quietly "led to the slaughter." The translators decided they could not substitute pig for lamb in that context because pigs make a squealing commotion before they are killed. What to do? Happily, the mission...
...nomination of Richard Burt, whose appointment as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs has been pending for nearly four months. Both Hatch and Helms claim that in 1979 Burt, then a New York Times correspondent in Washington, revealed classified information in his paper. For that, Hatch and Helms contend Burt should be disqualified from a sensitive post at State. As a result, the Senate leadership set the nomination aside...
...loses the part, and Michael, broke, decides to go for it. When, as Dorothy, he enters the strange subculture of the soaps, he must contend with such fine comic caricatures as a smooth, womanizing director (Dabney Coleman) and an aging ham actor (George Gaynes) who becomes so smitten with Dorothy that he ends up in the street beneath her window warbling, "I'll know when my love comes along." Then there is Jessica Lange as Julie Nichols, the soap opera's heroine...