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...Gritz's colleagues to tell their stories to Soldier of Fortune magazine, among others, did serve to embarrass their improbable group of backers and suppliers, who, it turns out, included Actors Clint Eastwood, 52, and William Shatner, 51, as well as the California-based Litton Industries. Eastwood is mum on his reasons for donating a reported $30,000, while Shatner claims that his $10,000 was paid solely in return for the rights to the life story of Gritz, who is believed to be still in Southeast Asia...
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...vowing to keep mum may not stop the harassment. Local papers will often assign a team of four or five reporters to badger jurors in the first days after a trial. Says the New York Post's combative Steve Dunleavy: "I love to get inside a juror's head." Anthea Frankl sat on the White Plains, N.Y., murder trial growing out of the Stouffer's Inn fire that killed 26 business executives. She saw so many newspeople that she began to rate them, from the New York Times ("totally ethical") to a local Westchester County, N.Y., paper...
...only washed up to his wrists because hidden dirt didn't matter. Despite the show's recurring theme of honesty, Beaver's behavior routinely triggered layers of good-natured deceit. Ward secretly helped Beaver with his homework; June stealthily took over his paper route; Beaver kept mum...
...long as Harvard promises that mum is the word on cases of sexual harassment, open season will remain on women undergraduates Indeed, the only lesson a potential harasser can draw from the Walcott case is that the College will stand by him steadfastly, and that it is his victim who will have to ask anonymity to hide the shame of the entire incident Harvard clings tightly to its tradition of imbuing its students with knowledge--sometimes even in the biblical sense...