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RECENT INNOVATIONS in the field of medicine have shaken up the medical hierachy in an unprecedented fashion. Little-known hospitals and doctors have managed to perform two of the most controversial and difficult operations without publishing their techniques for medical scruitiny and with a seemingly total disregard for the future of public health...
...statement has not satisfied the intelligence agency, which took the unprecedented step of filing a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. The CIA charged that ABC violated the FCC's Fairness Doctrine by broadcasting "outlandish statements" in "reckless disregard for the truth." (The fairness regulation requires that broadcasters "afford reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrasting viewpoints.") The CIA took the unusual action because the Supreme Court has indicated that federal agencies cannot sue news organizations for libel. In its complaint the CIA asked that the FCC order ABC to retract "all false allegations," and that it consider...
...taped interviews to make a 90-min. Viet Nam documentary in which General Westmoreland came off looking bad? In a paneled and marbled federal courtroom in Manhattan, television screens are arrayed so that judge, jury, lawyers and spectators can see replays of what CBS chose and what it disregarded. This unusual behind-the-scenes look at the editing process disturbs the press?reporters think they should be judged by their printed stories, not by their notes; television producers by the footage they used, not by rejected outtakes. Back in 1964 the Supreme Court ruled, in a case that the press...
...parent of three now grown adopted children of different genetic backgrounds, my experience confirms Kagan's observations. Our children's moral and emotional characteristics developed with almost total disregard to the values my wife and I attempted to instill...
...more than anyone else helped to sow. But it is a tragedy of choice, not necessity. India's is a system carefully constructed to allow for federal authority while preserving local autonomy; to forge a national culture while respecting inevitable ethnic differences. In recent years Gandhi demonstrated an alarming disregard for the laws of ethnic arithmetic and the system of constitutional checks and balances which must govern India if she is to live in peace...