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...Caplan favors using blue-ribbon panels to establish guidelines for exhumations and testing. Even medical examiner Michael Baden, co-director of the New York State Police forensic-sciences % unit, admits the need for caution. "We have to be careful that we're not succumbing to the public desire for gossip," he says. "The remains of the dead should be treated as sacrosanct and re-examined only for reasons of great importance...
...Harbor (1960) and Joe Gould's Secret (1965). They have been out of print for decades. But Pantheon Books has altered all that. Several years ago, the publishing house went through a convulsive change of management. Since then it has been the subject of intense debate and gossip. Could the new Pantheon survive under current business conditions? What kind of writers would it attract? If this anthology of Mitchell's best work is any indication, the publishers are on the cusp of a renaissance. Crowded with the author's favorite subjects ("visionaries, obsessives, imposters, fanatics, lost souls...
Part of the great black swirl of gossip now encircling Woody Allen is the confident assertion that in his new movie, Husbands and Wives, Allen plays a college professor who makes love with a young woman student a third his age. And, oh, in Manhattan didn't he and Mariel Hemingway play a similarly mismatched couple? In Hannah and Her Sisters didn't he imagine an affair between a sister and one of her brothers-in-law? No one recalls that Manhattan's middle-aged male ended up miserably alone, and that the scandalous tryst in Hannah was not joyous...
...meeting with Rabin went well enough until the closing press conference, when a CNN reporter threw a question that had rested half-buried like a live grenade from an old war. Had Bush, as Vice President, participated in a "sexual tryst" with a longtime assistant? Unsubstantiated gossip about | Bush and Jennifer Fitzgerald had floated among reporters and politicians -- including Bush's staff -- since the early '80s, then escaped last week through a brassy headline in the New York Post based on a brief reference in a new book. "It's a lie," the President responded...
...issue has been more than fodder for gossip columns. The advent of AIDS has made bisexuality a matter of medical concern. Bisexual men who practice unsafe sex with male and female partners may help speed the spread of HIV through the heterosexual community. "Up until the time of AIDS, the term bisexual was hardly even used," says anthropologist Carmen Dora Guimaraes of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, "but with the spread of AIDS, we are now trying to flush out this enigmatic character...