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...Disney's clout often assures that such movies are financially successful anyway, Katz said. "We can sell virtually anything," he said...
Koop and Mapplethorpe were brought together by Linda Freeman, assistant to TIME art director Rudy Hoglund. First she secured Koop's willingness to be photographed by Mapplethorpe, whose erotic images often overshadowed his iconographic portraits of celebrities and his still lifes. "Although Mapplethorpe had always wanted to shoot an assignment for TIME, his studio informed us that he was too ill to go to Washington," Freeman says. So Koop agreed to come to Manhattan...
Ethics and politics -- can the two go together? It sometimes seems not. In an eerie parallel to the trials of U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright, Japan's leading politicians are under fire for misunderstanding -- or missing -- the connection. In both countries, the lines are often hard to draw, as changing standards of morality are applied to the fuzzy world of campaign financing...
...dollars, his service to the House for 34 years. These are the tidy rituals of comradeship and parliamentary procedure that are so dear and so binding to those denizens of the Capitol. Wright is correct that the media convulsion about human rectitude or the lack of it is unrealistic, often unfair and to some degree perversely inspired by Republicans and other enemies. He is no doubt sincere in his belief that what he did was not knowingly wrong, certainly not evil...
...into college ranks and illegally plying hot prospects with cash, cars and other perks for signing premature, postdated contracts. But the agents' lawyers maneuvered strenuously to shift the indictment's focus. Their target: the system of big-time college athletics that, with box-office and TV profits at stake, often looks the other way when stars get improper favors and that condones specious academic regimens to maintain those stars' eligibility...