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BOSWORTH SEES HER break with the fashion world as the turning point in Arbus' career, the moment she went form being a photographer to being an artist. Forbidden as a young girl from even looking at freaks, she now stared. She began to prowl the streets of New York-late at night, when the train stations were "deep, empty, odoriferous-'like pits of hell''' and when the freaks-came out. Soon she became a regular at Hubert's Freak Museum. Staring at the hideous figures, she felt fear run its course through her body and she was determined to conquer...
...ruthlessly. As director of the Federal Trade Commission, his first federal post, his orders were to clean house; within a year, some 50 lawyers had left. As Director of the Office of Management and Budget, he made unprecedented use of a procedure called impoundment, under which federal agencies were forbidden to spend authorized funds. In 1972, Weinberger held up $11.2 billion...
...Nicaragua, four Roman Catholic priests remain as officials in the Marxist- led Sandinista government in defiance of canon law, which prohibits priests from holding public office. One of the priests was expelled from the Society of Jesus in December; the other three priests were forbidden in January by the Vatican to perform their sacerdotal duties if they did not resign in two weeks. Insists Fernando Cardenal Martinez, the former Jesuit and Nicaragua's Education Minister: "There is no basic religious problem between the church and the revolution. What exists is a political confrontation...
...women fill in by doing chaplains' work, counseling, Bible readings, indeed, all the tasks of a priest except consecrating the Eucharist, hearing confession, confirming members and administering last rites. Some feminists complain that such assistants are underpaid and exploited, but the more important criticism is that they are still forbidden to conduct the central rituals of the faith...
...announced on Friday that it found the disputed paragraph false. He called the decision "a clear moral victory." But Cave told reporters that TIME still believed its story to be substantially true. "No one has come forward and said that story was false, but one," he said. "We were forbidden to bring in our own witnesses in this case. We were forbidden access to the testimony that we were confident, confident, would prove that what that paragraph said was correct." After deciding the falsity issue, the jurors closeted themselves on Friday afternoon to discuss the matter of "actual malice...