Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terse and feisty, especially in its newly argumentative opinion pages. To the potential disappointment of some readers, however, there will be no cheesecake-or beefcake. Says British-born Editor in Chief Peter O'Sullivan, 34: "The 'Sunshine Girl' has a certain, if you will pardon the expression, grab appeal for the Sun, a tabloid dependent on street sales. But the Houston Post is a different kind of paper, and we do not want to alienate the circulation that we paid for." Still, the paper will be raffish: the owners seek not so much to cut into...
...There's a nut on the line,' and hang up." In the past few years, many newspapers have created a standing format for corrections. The Louisville Courier-Journal runs its admissions of error on the front page of the local news section under the headline "Beg Your Pardon"; its sister paper, the Louisville Times, uses the blunt designation "We Were Wrong." Some newspapers, including the Seattle Times, Charlotte (N.C.) News and Observer and Miami Herald, mail out questionnaires to the subjects of certain news stories to ask whether they feel they were treated accurately and fairly. When...
...Health care here is too high class; the middle class is pardon my French, getting screwed. The high class is the offices and clinics [Harvard affiliated] at the Mt. Auburn [Hospital] and then there are the neighborhood health clinics and nothing in between," she explained. "People should be critical of what they get and a little competition is good," Homa added...
...Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest Association were set to publish A Time to Heal, an account by Gerald Ford of his life and presidency. Shortly before the book was due out, the Nation (circ. 48,000), a leftist weekly, summarized Ford's account of his pardon of Richard Nixon, using a stolen copy of the book without Ford's permission. A U.S. district court ruled that the Nation had taken the former President's work in violation of the federal copyright laws, and directed the magazine to pay the publishers damages...
...Korematsu, 63, he is now an Oakland draftsman and is "very pleased and satisfied with the ruling. I don't have a criminal record any more." Why had he not sought a pardon to erase that record? "If anyone should do any pardoning," he said quietly, "I should be the one pardoning the Government for what they did to the Japanese-American people...