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...Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said in a statement yesterday that the league has appointed Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann, a former Watergate special prosecutor, to conduct an independent "fact-finding" inquiry into the alleged verbal abuse of Boston Herald sportswriter Lisa Olson in the Patriots locker room two weeks...
...Sunday, Kiam placed full-page advertisements in both The Globe and The Herald, apologizing for the behavior of his players and denying that he ever called Olson...
...Canaan has been plundered into every sort of woe . . . Israel is laid waste and his seed is not." In 1207 B.C., in the fifth year of his reign, the Egyptian Pharaoh Merenptah used these words to herald the victorious campaign he had waged two years earlier against Canaan, to the north of Egypt. In the process, the Pharaoh may have given the world its first recorded mention of the people of Israel. Merenptah's account of his military exploits is inscribed on a granite monolith 7 1/2 ft. high and 3 1/4 ft. wide. The stone was recovered...
...breathe new life into Style, Downie is bringing in Miami Herald Sunday magazine editor Gene Weingarten, a self-described "shock journalist" who once enlivened a story on the federal budget deficit by illustrating it with photos of naked men and women. Weingarten's hiring, says Downie, is an example of his goal of surrounding himself with visionary editors: "I hire lots of people who are smarter than I am, and I act as a catalyst." Still, the final question that will have to be answered by the Downie regime is whether the Post can flourish without a single controlling vision...
...sandwich approach to women. But the moves against 2 Live Crew come on top of the obscenity charges against the director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati for mounting a show of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's work. Artists, writers, filmmakers and musicians have to wonder whether these actions herald an anti-obscenity campaign that could send them scrambling for cover...