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...minute prime-time address on tax and spending policy. While ABC agreed to the request-which came on three hours' notice-CBS and NBC both said no. They observed that because the President is a declared candidate for reelection, they could be required under the Communications Act to furnish equal time to other candidates seeking the Republican nomination. CBS News President Richard Salant explained that his network would be willing to accept the risks created by the equal-time rule only "in circumstances of national emergencies or urgent presidential announcements." An NBC spokesman said that his network believed that...
...contract says the University is under no obligation to furnish heat in the student's room during an academic vacation. The student who chooses to occupy the room is required to furnish his or her own heat through an electrical space heater approved by the University...
...Hammadi texts, says New Testament Scholar James M. Robinson, who led the team that has compiled them, offer the first comprehensive view of Gnosticism as "a religion in its own right." That view is startling indeed. The Gnostics were imaginative religious scavengers who borrowed freely from various sources to furnish their own scriptures. But they evidently felt a particular need to co-opt and corrupt elements of their rival, Christianity. Typically, two of the best-known tracts from the Nag Hammadi library, the previously published Gospel of Thomas and Gospel of Philip, contain sayings of Jesus purportedly collected...
...Real Paper has also shown an ability to produce good investigative reporting, not the muck-faking that similar weekly papers often crank out. Recently it revealed that Suffolk Country Sheriff Thomas Eisenstadt, for example, spent public funds to furnish his house, spending money for velvet drapes, a Pakistani rug, even an escargot set. It was a story that the Real Paper beat The Globe to by several steps...
...their coarse, nimble ponies, they rode like centaurs. They made cloaks from tanned scalps, and the skin of a right arm would furnish a container for their arrows. ("The skin of a man," noted Herodotus, who could seldom resist a piquant detail, "is thick and glossy, and whiter than almost all other hides.") To relax, they got uproariously drunk on thick wine from the Black Sea area, which they quaffed from the leather-bound skulls of their foes, or they would dump marijuana seeds on red-hot stones and breathe the smoke. Fortunately for archaeology, they buried their dead kings...