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...scandal emerged as one facet in a developing national debate over the government's role in supporting research--a debate set off, in part, by controversies over President Reagan's "Star Wars" program. National intelligence agencies do not dish out cash on the same scale as the Department of Defense, but "spook" funding still poses a double threat to responsible scholarship. First, it imposes the risk of the government censoring or biasing sensitive research, and second, such support can destroy the credibility of both the scholar and his institution...
...climb, Barbara Borkin, a vice president of Halston Fragrances in New York City, muttered, "War and Peace wasn't this long." The meals are justly infamous as well. "You eat here only what you throw away at home," chortles Bennstrom. Typical Ashram lunch: a small fruit plate, plus a dish of cottage cheese with six stranded raisins flanking a lone strawberry. A cowbell used to guard the refrigerator from desperate raiders; it was abandoned as excessive, but the food still is not. At dinner one night, Brad Rosenberg, 43, a Los Angeles real estate developer, set aside some hated squash...
...affronted by their pride in him: "I had been waiting all my life for a moment I realized now would never come--the time it would be my turn to be seen as I truly was." He glances at the holiday turkey, "which was draped in a butter-soaked dish towel and sat on the oven rack like a Latin American dictator in a sauna...
Such fears are exaggerated; not all satellite-beamed signals are being scrambled, and the $395 decoder will bring in most of the ones that are. Pay- cable executives defend their right to charge dish owners for picking up their channels. Subscription fees are what defray the cost of programming, they argue, and it is only fair that dish owners ante up too. "In order for this product to exist, it has to be paid for by those who use it," says Duncan Murray, a vice president of the Disney Channel...
...daring electronic whiz called Captain Midnight breaks into hbo programming to air dish owners' beefs against cable services...