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Administration: Susan Lynd, David Richardson, Hope Almash, Melissa August, Breena Clarke, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Ann V. King, Lina Lofaro, Anne D. Moffett, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley...
Fred Wertheimer, president of the citizens' lobby Common Cause, which initially demanded the investigation, was outraged at the lenient treatment, and angrily commented: "The U.S. Senate remains on the auction block to the Charles Keatings of the world." Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, called the report a "whitewash...
...reason? Giarratano, 33, now a jailhouse lawyer, is no longer convinced he was the killer. Since 1983, he and supporters, ranging from conservative columnist James J. Kilpatrick to singer-activist Joan Baez, have sought to show that various statements in his confession contradict each other and the crime-scene evidence. Wilder, who received 6,000 pleas to commute the death sentence, ultimately agreed. But only state attorney general Mary Sue Terry can grant Giarratano a second trial, and she is so far unwilling...
...their health by having silicone injected into their breasts, she thinks Wolf's book distorts the relationship between feminism and beauty. Women, she says, do not have to choose between the two, but can delight in a frivolous enjoyment of fashion without becoming a slave to it. In contrast, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, an associate professor of women's studies at Cornell University, who wrote a 1988 history of anorexia titled Fasting Girls, welcomes Wolf's book as another expose of the kind of self-inflicted damage that women undergo as a matter of course. "At this moment," she says, "looking...
...York Daily News, Sullivan had a reporter's instinct for what was hot, and he outhustled rivals to showcase new talent, notably Elvis Presley and the Beatles. And not just in pop. Sullivan proudly treated his audiences to classical excellence in the personae of opera diva Joan Sutherland and ballet stars Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. He encouraged black artists at a time when TV offered them few opportunities. Ella Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey were all but regulars; Motown stars -- from Smokey Robinson to the winsome little Jackson Five -- got ample display...