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After five months of brawling, it finally seems as though the end is in sight. While he stopped short of declaring outright victory for the home- shopping channel, "Diller will not lose any sleep over this new bid," says analyst Logsdon. If Diller does not alter his own bid (most observers believe he will not) and Viacom fails to sweeten its package by early next week, then it remains for Paramount's shareholders to vote with their shares of stock. Though QVC and its advisers radiated confidence at the end of last week, they were not above taking...
...Certainly her words have had consequences. When Canada's Supreme Court decided to uphold the nation's toughened obscenity laws two years ago, they were moved in large part by MacKinnon's argument that pornography prompts men to a whole panoply of crimes against women, from gender discrimination to outright rape...
...Wednesday evening, the American Repertory Theatre opened its production of Orton's What the Butler Saw. In the script, Orton's cleverness, if not outright genius, stands unquestioned. He has a keen knack for dramatizing many of his favorite themes by "inverting" the common knowledge, wherein the normal--progressively through the show--becomes the abnormal and vice versa. His brilliant farce of late 60s English society leaves nothing sacred, not even the phallus of Winston Churchill...
...college newspaper staffs' we-won't-run-lies arguments, he tried to trip up the students with their own logic. He sent out a second ad, this one more limited in subject and more innocuous in tone. It suggested that people rethink the Holocaust, but didn't refute facts outright...
...Outright prohibition -- at least of handguns -- is exactly what some people have in mind. Rhode Island Senator John Chafee has twice introduced a bill to ban their sale, manufacture and possession. Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker plans to introduce a bill in February making it a crime for most people to be caught outside their home or business with a concealed weapon. Weicker says he intends for the law to lay the groundwork for an eventual ban on handguns in his state -- though as a lame-duck Governor he would be leaving the job of getting one as a tricky legacy...