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...calls for states' and individuals' rights to Moral Majority attacks on feminism and abortion, and even some racist-tinged critiques of affirmative action. But the editors, diverse as they are, trade notes and have come to constitute an informal network. That delights Columnist William Buckley, a major patron of the Dartmouth Review and a hero to most of the rightist student editors. Buckley is enthusiastic: "I have for 30 years maintained that the genuine dissidents at liberal colleges are conservatives...
...were to take a straw poll on th best-known young American artist the winner would certainly be Julian Schnabel, 30. The 1981-82 art season drenched him in publicity: not accidentally, since his main patron is Charle Saatchi, the English advertising man who also takes care of the public image of Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. The art world was diligently sown with rumors that his paintings were selling for $30,000, $50,000 or $75,000, though no one was on record as actually paying such sums for the work of the new stupor mundi...
DIED. Rebekah Harkness, 67, wealthy heiress who became a generous donor to medical research and a patron of the arts, particularly ballet, maintaining her own troupe, the Harkness Ballet, from 1965 to 1975; of cancer; in New York City...
...Dershowitz? To be sure, he is smart, energetic and an expert in criminal law, but so are others. What made Dershowitz the right choice is that he has become, perhaps, the top lawyer of last resort in the country-a sort of judicial St. Jude-the mouthpiece, or patron saint, of hopeless cases. Says Dershowitz: "I play the devil's advocate in court, sometimes representing true devils...
...adventure's patron, Prince Charles, 33, describes it as "refreshingly mad." Indeed, it has been...