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Nobody ever said that sports should be above the law; cheating, in fact, has become so rampant that innocence itself would be a crime. When he drugged his way to a gold at the Olympics, Ben Johnson made a mockery not only of the Games' utopian ideals, and of the nation he was representing, but also of all the competitors who were relying only on their natural talents. Yet all of Boggs' cheating, by comparison, was off the field. No one ever accused him of being a dirty player. Nor has anyone shown that his indiscretions affected his performance...
Last week's hearings came at an important time for both sides in the abortion fight. Next month the Supreme Court will hear the first serious challenge to Roe v. Wade since it became law. The original decision was based in part on the court's conviction that legal abortion is a safe option. Since then, pro-life forces have chipped away at the decision's medical premises. "These are extremely important conclusions," said Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss of New York, who organized the hearings. Conceded Koop: "It's very difficult to separate abortion the moral issue from abortion...
...tell if the network has produced an Edsel, the bodywork so far looks good. Generations' actors are largely veterans. Taurean Blacque (Hill Street Blues) plays family patriarch Henry Marshall, owner of a chain of five Chicago ice-cream parlors. Lynn Hamilton (The Waltons) is Henry's mother-in-law, Vivian, who years earlier was a servant in the Whitmore mansion. Her former mistress, Pat Crowley (Dynasty), is the lawyer Rebecca < Whitmore, Marshall's attorney and a troubled divorcee. These three, along with members of both families, knot the skein of story lines in which soap fans so love...
...Accustomed to success in translating their private anxieties into public activity -- protesting a war, toppling a President, taking over universities -- they turned to perfecting their immediate environment in the 1970s, pressing the Government for help and suing anyone who did not share their finicky obsessions. Safety regulations multiplied, tort law boomed, liability-insurance rates soared...
...celebration party for newly-tenured Law School professors Randall Kennedy and Kathleen M. Sullivan, a professor offered a Crimson reporter a glass of champagne. When the professor learned that he was talking to a reporter he put the bottle down quickly...