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Lessing decided to end the ruse after word of Somers' true identity began to leak out. But she is amazed that none of the books' readers or reviewers were able to identify her prose. "We thought we couldn't possibly get away with it," she told TIME. "The single most astonishing fact is that nobody guessed it was me." The mild ripple created by her books was less surprising. "A very good first novel can get published and get good reviews and then vanish," she said. "Few publishers have the attitude they used to have: keep...
...choice as a matter of public policy. So wrote James W. Malone, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Youngstown, Ohio, and head of the U.S. Catholic Conference, the executive agency of the 285 American Catholic bishops, in a formal statement released last week after portions of it had started to leak. He mentioned no names, but the position he assailed happens to be the one taken by a number of prominent Catholic politicians, most notably Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Geraldine Ferraro...
...respected journal Science will soon publish four papers that describe Gallo's isolation of a virus that appears to be the cause of AIDS. "He is going to nail it down cold," predicts AIDS Researcher Anthony Fauci of NIH. But as word of the discovery began to leak out last week-notably in an article in New Scientist magazine based apparently on advance copies of Gallo's papers-a scientific team in Paris rushed to call attention to their own work on an AIDS virus. A Nobel Prize was possibly at stake, and Epidemiologist William Blattner...
...dispensed with in a hard world where dedicated enemies resort to them freely. But they are extraordinarily difficult to conduct successfully, and not only because in a democracy they cannot long be kept secret. That, to be sure, is a major problem, internally as well as externally. Partial stories leak; wild rumors fly; the Government is unable to explain fully what it is doing and why; public distrust grows...
Reporting a newsroom leak...