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Beginning with David Letterman and Johnny Carson, the first reaction of many was to make Hart the butt of a national laugh-in. A front-page Des Moines Register cartoon showed Hart wearing a dwarf costume labeled SLEAZY, as he pushed the other six candidates off a cliff. Hart was also tagged by cartoonists as HORNY and RANDY. A popular Denver radio show held an hour-long phone-in of the latest jokes about him, most of which tended toward the tasteless. One caller said the best Hart joke was that "Gary is running for President...
...feuding erupted over portions of a 30-page document released by the nation's bishops that seemed at least to tolerate such instruction as a lesser evil. The hierarchy's 50-member administrative board argued that public education should stress the traditional Christian virtue of abstinence from sex apart from marriage, along with avoidance of intravenous drug use, as the best and morally correct method of containing the AIDS epidemic. But, it acknowledged, in a pluralistic society some people will simply not accept such strictures. Thus, said the bishops, accurate information about prophylactic devices "as a potential means of preventing...
...minded leftists. Increasingly, charged Crockford's, the Church of England is run by theologically vapid leaders who follow "what they think is the wish of the majority of the moment" and whose "moderately Catholic style . . . is not taken to the point of having firm principles." Meanwhile, declared the 16-page piece, few appointments go to biblical conservatives in the Evangelical faction or to liturgical and doctrinal traditionalists in the Anglo-Catholic wing, even though the two groups constitute a substantial portion of worshipers...
Though they were overshadowed by the summiteers in Washington, U.S. and Canadian negotiators reached a historic agreement of their own last week. In Ottawa, the two sides put the final touches on a 250-page free-trade treaty that by 1999 will lift all tariffs between the world's two largest trading partners (total 1986 volume: $124 billion). The pact could mean lower prices for everything from American cars to Canadian...
...already preparing for next year's freshman class, by gathering together the application folders and interview files of the latest crop of would-be Harvard students. Once the members of the Class of 1992 have been selected, the FDO this spring will send them its two-page housing application form...