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...speech that is explicitly political" and extends no guarantees to literary or scientific creation. On the D.C. federal appeals bench, however, he has written some opinions strongly upholding free-speech rights. He supported the press in a much cited 1984 libel suit against Syndicated Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, proposing that "those who place themselves in a political arena must accept a degree of derogation that others need not." Says Libel Lawyer Bruce Sanford: "There hasn't been an opinion more favorable to the press in a decade...
...White House years was abundant, possibly innocent acts inflated by Kennedy's lurid reputation. On Inauguration night, just after Jackie had gone home alone (she was still recovering from the difficult birth of John Jr.), a reporter peered through the potted palms behind the stage and saw Actresses Kim Novak and Angie Dickinson joining the President's small coterie. At a Palm Beach, Fla., mansion following Kennedy's summit with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, the President dined with an old school chum, an acquaintance and two attractive young ladies. The acquaintance left after dinner and the chum and the ladies...
Though 15 million copies of the NAB have been distributed, Social Philosopher Michael Novak sums up the view of many Catholics when he observes that the 1970 Bible has "the practicality of a fast-food outlet." But, he adds, "you miss the music." The most withering attack was mounted in a 1977 Commonweal article by John T. Noonan, then a University of California law professor and now a federal judge. He declared that American Catholics are "being impoverished" and demanded that the bishops ban the version and order up another...
Within the Administration, a war of backbiting leaks broke out. Early in the week, a Rowland Evans and Robert Novak column reported that Vice President George Bush had given a stern admonition to Secretary of State George Shultz, a public opponent of the Iranian arms sales, to support President Reagan or resign; the source was widely believed to be Don Regan. The Washington Post then reported that last November Shultz had protested to the President that Casey was about to give false testimony to a congressional committee. After a sharp confrontation, the Post said, Shultz got Casey's testimony changed...
with William Novak...