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...have had to use all sorts of ruses to get information, but I do not feel I have to be honest with public officials who are never honest with us." New Orleans Television Reporter Pierre DeGruy posed as the owner of a film production company in order to obtain interviews with young male prostitutes, then aired footage in which the youths' faces and voices were recognizable. He has some regrets: "We scammed them to get them to tell us the most intimate details of their lives. Now that I have done it, I have serious problems with it." Undercover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journalism Under Fire | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

Jackson describes sports as an arena in which some of "society's fundamental debates are also being waged." As an example, he discusses potential problems created by a recent National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) decision to probibit freshmen from playing intercollegiate athletics unless they obtain a minimum score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sense, Not Dollars | 12/10/1983 | See Source »

...Rusnak '85 proceed to outline facts and misconceptions about the different methods of birth control, taking care in each case to describe how to obtain contraceptives from UHS, and what exactly is involved in a visit for that purpose...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Birth Control At Harvard: Spreading The Word | 12/1/1983 | See Source »

...parents decided not to authorize major surgery that might prolong Baby Jane's life. A right-to-life activist lawyer sought to force the surgery, but two New York appeals courts and a state children's agency declined to override the parents. Justice then sued to obtain the records from University Hospital in Stony Brook, N.Y., to determine whether it had violated a federal law that forbids discrimination against the handicapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: No to the Feds | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

Arafat all but agreed to give Hussein the go-ahead to negotiate on behalf of the West Bank's Palestinians, but at the last minute failed to obtain the backing of his own organization and pulled out. In retrospect, some analysts believe that Arafat would have been no worse off had he given Hussein the mandate, even if it might have split his movement. Says former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, who has long maintained close ties to Arafat: "Because he was so intent on maintaining the unity of the P.L.O., he never stated clearly enough what his real aims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling to Control the P.L.O. | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

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