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...worry about censure from broadcasting regulators. "We live in a free country," says Tommasi. "We say what we say. We are just two good friends watching tennis matches." Occasionally they get an earful from an offended viewer. When that happens, they read the complaint on the air. Without fail, they are then bombarded with supportive e-mails. "When people say, 'You are too vulgar,' I have to laugh," says Clerici. "The greatest vulgarity in life is not having a sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis, Italian Style | 9/8/2002 | See Source »

...shows: Lauren Bacall praised Visudyne as a treatment for macular degeneration, Rob Lowe plugged Neulasta to combat a side effect of chemotherapy, and Kathleen Turner directed viewers to a website for a drug for rheumatoid arthritis. Sometimes, as with Bacall's controversial appearance on NBC's Today, the celebrities fail to mention that they are being paid. Just last week CNN (which is owned by AOL Time Warner) announced that from now on, it will always disclose any such financial ties during an interview, and the three major broadcast networks have suggested that they will follow suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S AN AD, AD, AD, AD World | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

Students kill themselves at all times of year, but attempted suicides--which fail owing to luck, ambivalence or good medicine--begin to go up in the fall, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Often the immediate cause seems to be a recent rejection, disappointment or academic failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Young Take Their Lives | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...often diverted to other projects or siphoned off by corrupt officials. "The difference between success and failure in protecting wild areas is presence," says Alan Rabinowitz, director of science and exploration at the Wildlife Conservation Society, based at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. "The ones that fail are where a project is set up and walked away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Them Run Wild | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...move, detailed to the school in a memo sent Friday by HLS Dean Robert C. Clark, came after the Air Force determined in May that the school’s ban on employers who fail to adhere to a nondiscrimination policy was not in compliance with a federal statute...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law School Will Allow Official Recruiting Visits by Military | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

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