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Breslin should feel at home: the crush of shows elbowing for space in the late-night arena is starting to look like the 5 p.m. commuter crowd at Penn Station. A year ago at this time, the field was largely the domain of NBC's Johnny Carson-David Letterman duo and ABC's Nightline. But Joan Rivers, who raucously departed as the Tonight show's permanent guest host last spring, has just launched her own syndicated talk show, telecast live at 11 p.m. EST and currently seen on 99 stations. Brenner's Nightlife, another syndicated entry...
Fears that the automatic stacks might crush someone have been assuaged by almost two years of uneventful service in Pusey. Although those shelves have destroyed several stools which were left in a closing aisle, no one has been hurt. The Tozzer stacks are equipped with sensitive pressure plates which cut power to the stacks when someone is standing in the aisle...
...doubles, sophomore Hank Parichabutr teamed up with senior Dave Clark to crush the West Virginia team...
...contended that "Gaddafi is temporarily quiescent in his support of terrorism." The Journal wrote that Administration officials were convinced the U.S. air strikes had "sparked several mutinies in the Libyan military" and even quoted unnamed officials as claiming the Libyan air force "had to send hired Syrian pilots to crush the rebellions." Whether or not this occurred, the Poindexter memo noted that by mid-August Gaddafi was "firmly in control in Libya...
Conservative Moral Theologian Germain Grisez of Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland sees John Paul's cleanup as one of historic proportions, comparing it with Pope Pius X's effort early in the century to crush the modernist movement. That dispute, says Grisez, "was basically a much smaller thing than what's happening now." Similarly underscoring the significance of the situation, the Vatican's official spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, stated last week that "this phenomenon of dissent, in the U.S. and elsewhere, touches the very nature of the church. The real question is no longer abortion, or even moral...