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Most news organizations, including TIME, impose no blanket restrictions on outside political activity so long as it is unrelated to a reporter's regular field. But others frown on any political advocacy. The Times, which plans to clarify its policy, declines to "explicitly say that journalists can't participate in a movement that is far afield from their beats," says assistant managing editor Warren Hoge. "But I sure wish they wouldn't." The Post takes a more hard-line position: its reporters are discouraged from engaging in any political activities, including community affairs, regardless of what they cover. Many Post...
Most faiths frown on mixed marriage, but in Judaism it has long been seen as a particularly severe violation of religious tradition. Since the Holocaust, America's Jewish community of 5.9 million has become sensitized to its erosion through intermarriage and assimilation. Emotions run high. Rabbis who agree to officiate at interfaith marriages -- and some 75% refuse -- are sometimes viewed as traitors and spurned by synagogues. Parents and grandparents worry about the future of their families and faith. "They fear that '5,000 years of Jewish lineage is going to end with my child,' " says Rabbi Robert Alper of Wyncote...
Mexican officials frown on information provided by sources like Gabriel. They contend that the informants attempt to save their own skin by spreading unverifiable tales about prominent people. True, Gabriel is no angel; his DFS job involved reselling drugs that had been seized by other Mexican police. Still, many of his allegations have the ring of truth. Mexico thoroughly reorganized the DFS in 1985. Says one U.S. investigator of Gabriel: "Whom he says he knows, he knows. He calls them. He talks with them about drugs. We're satisfied that what he says is true...