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These questions were at the heart of the debate last week surrounding the release of the final report of Attorney General Edwin Meese's Commission on Pornography and a series of restrictive Supreme Court decisions that, among other things, allowed states to outlaw homosexual sodomy. Though significant, neither the report's findings nor the court's rulings were, on their own, momentous. Taken together, however, they seemed emblematic of a new moral militancy evident in communities around the country and of a willingness of government officials, from federal to local levels, to help enforce traditional values. In addition...
...this year, incidentally -- Lewis reasoned, "They'll try to help anyone beat us." When a confusion of 1,500-meter heats turned Steve Scott's silver to bronze, he grumped, "It's an asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak to 111 races; Cheryl Miller led the U.S. women's basketball team to an 83-60 victory over the Soviets; Dasher Evelyn Ashford, 29, held off East Germany's Heike Drechsler, 21, for another day; Jackie Joyner became the first U.S. woman since...
...relief not to large groups of people but only to specific individuals who can prove that they were victims of racial bias. Hiring goals and timetables -- or, as the Reaganauts prefer to call them, quotas -- are a form of "reverse discrimination" against whites that is "immoral," contends Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...problems may stem partly from questionable policies. One of InterFirst's subsidiary banks gave an $80 million loan to former Director Edwin Cox Jr., a wealthy Texas rancher. Cox resigned last month after the value of his collateral became inadequate. Banking regulators are studying whether InterFirst broke a U.S. law that puts restrictions on loans to bank directors...
...celebrating a statistical victory. If yours is one of a hundred weddings in a thousand, might as well send up a big salute. There are weddings of fantasy (from The Godfather to Dynasty) and of privilege: Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger on April 26, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg on July 19, and Fergie and Prince Andrew on July 23. They are all fair game for emulation in a democracy where a plastic card can grab you a piece of anyone else's dream and an extra slice of wedding cake. Linda Blackburn, a former catering consultant, and onetime wedding...