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...Book of Ken and Adam--or should I say the Gospel according to Ken and Adam--has an answer to this argument. These leading experts on the Jewish community contend, "Hillel has been subverted by a radical faction...
Unlike most of his colleagues at the Nieman Foundation, Vessenski, a leading Soviet journalist, has for much of his career had to contend with tight official censorship procedures designed to weed out unflattering remarks about his country. The Soviet press has always been permitted a certain amount of criticism, he says, but only of individual officials and particular incidents--and, until very recently, never of the entire system...
Coffey denies that his relationships color how Calendar is edited; instead, he points to the hard-nosed pieces he has published detailing the behind-the- scenes negotiations that went into the Matsushita buyout of MCA and Sony's * purchase of Columbia Pictures. Coffey boosters contend that Calendar's emphasis on profiles and reviews simply makes the section more competitive with the highbrow arts and culture section of the New York Times, which began circulating its national edition in Los Angeles...
White House officials rejected the charges. "The only pressure for the U.S. to intervene is coming from columnists and commentators," said a senior presidential aide. He and other Bush advisers contend that the American public overwhelmingly wants U.S. troops to be brought home as rapidly as possible. Another White House official adds that "our coalition partners," both European and Arab, "don't want us getting involved in Iraq's internal affairs" either. If the U.S. were to choose sides, it would be exceeding the U.N. mandates under which it fought the war, and with little support abroad or at home...
...what? A number of experts contend that the U.S. knows next to nothing about those who are fighting, what they want and whether they might be able to run part or all of the country. "There are no real groups competing for power," says a U.S. analyst. "The Baathists have destroyed them all." . Bush's advisers fear that if some loose combination of rebels won, they would not be able to exercise effective control over the institutions dominated by Saddam's fellow Sunni Muslims -- the army, the security police and the Baath party -- that have kept Iraq together. The country...