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...agree to off-the-record arrangements, particularly in campaign coverage. The New York Times, which did not publicly challenge Mondale's rules during the primaries, helped force the change for the general-election campaign. Said Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "We cannot accept a blanket off-the-record edict on the coverage of a presidential candidate." CBS News President Edward Joyce last week informed his correspondents that he will review all existing arrangements. Said a CBS spokesman: "We will evaluate each candidate's request separately, and our policy will vary...
During the often stormy relationship between science and religion, no other event has proved so troublesome as the Roman Catholic Church's denunciation of Galileo Galilei. In 1633, at the age of 69, the noted Italian scientist was judged by the Inquisition to have violated a church edict against espousing the controversial Copernican view that the sun, not the earth, was at the center of the universe. For the last nine years of his life, Galileo lived under house arrest...
...that handicapped infants would receive proper medical care even if their parents or physicians were willing to let them die. In May 1982, the department informed the nation's 5,800 hospitals that they could lose federal funding if they withheld treatment or nourishment from handicapped infants. This edict was followed by a tougher regulation requiring hospitals to post large signs in public places bearing the inscription "Discriminatory failure to feed or care for handicapped infants in this facility is prohibited by federal law." The posters provided the number of a 24-hour, toll-free hotline for anonymous informers...
...cleansed of their unconstitutional veto clauses, as the court last week ruled was permitted in the immigration law, and which laws must now be thrown away along with their veto provisions? The high court and the lower federal courts, in order to refine last week's basic edict, will surely now face a surge of test cases...
...that much in the way of either tales or transitions survives. The kids' ringleader is Rosie (Dede Schmeiser), who spends most of her time fantasizing about the terrible things that may have happened to her little brother, Chicken Soup (Steve Gutwillig), who tags along after her by parental edict. One hanger-on is named Alligator (Valerie Gilbert)--she's the one who sings the alphabet solo, which starts. "Alligators All Around." Another is Pierre--the Pierre who gets eaten by a lion in another Sendak book. Rosie's brother is named Chicken Soup merely so that--in the evening...