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...Earlier this year, Twin Cities Catholic Archbishop John Roach urged militant antiabortion groups to avoid his area. "I do not find Operation Rescue to be a positive element in the pro-life movement," he said, "and I just wish they'd stay wherever they are." Operation Rescue ignored his plea. This week the group's challenge will be to regain the confidence of its less radical fellow believers...
...based this novel on his daughter's experience as the target of just such a brutal sexual assault and robbery. He deals swiftly with the crime, then goes on to outline its aftermath in meticulous detail, from the hours Nancy spends combing through police mug shots to the frustrating plea bargaining necessary to close the case. The author presents what appears to be a best-case scenario (the victim sustains no lasting physical injuries, all officialdom is uniformly kind and civil) while managing to skewer upper-middle-class denial in the face of shocking events. But the woman's constant...
...week or so before a little-known Texan named George Bush announced his candidacy for the presidency in 1979, political adviser David Keene telephoned a Washington speechwriter with a desperate plea for help. "We need an announcement statement," Keene explained to Vic Gold. "So what's the problem?" Gold asked. "The problem," answered Keene, "is that David Gergen has been working on it for months...
Helmsley's plea for mercy is a masterly exercise in fawning self-promotion. It includes details of the good works she would do during her parole, newspaper editorials calling for her release, doctors' reports on her allegedly failing health and even letters from well-wishers, including one man who offers to distribute buttons, bumper stickers and lawn signs emblazoned with the words FREE LEONA. It was presented in court by Helmsley's lawyer with the aid of a kind of professional called a sentencing consultant, one of a growing breed of specialists who counsel convicted offenders on how to avoid...
Hollywood is not new to politics. Stars often use their fame to appeal for certain causes. This phenomenon may have reached a peak this year with Richard Gere's plea for Tibet (certainly a worthy cause) at the Oscar ceremony...