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After Wylie competes in the Portland, Maine, SkateAmerica Competition later this week, he will fly to Moscow to participate in the "Prize of the Moscow News" competition, a different sort of international skating meet. Early in February, Wylie will then attempt to move closer to obtaining the Men's National Title when he skates in the National Figure Skating Championships in Washington state. "That's going to be during spring shopping week," he muses...
...prints by twelve photographers, all of them affiliated with photo agencies that distribute their work to magazines and newspapers. "On the Line: The New Color Photojournalism" originated earlier this year at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. This week it will complete a stop at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Me. From there it will travel over the next two years to Chapel Hill, N.C., Lawrence, Kans., Austin, Pittsburgh, Aspen, Colo., and Toledo. Adam D. Weinberg, who organized the exhibit, describes these pictures as "on the line" between art and journalism. He tends to draw the line...
...photographers in the Portland show, Yan Morvan and Alfred Yaghobzadeh, have worked in Lebanon, and from some of their pictures one can grasp the moral implications of that tone. Their best images are their least polished: Morvan's scene of the aftermath of a car bomb, Yaghobzadeh's shot of two men bearing the victim of heavy shelling. For photographers working in the rubble of failed diplomacy, the most decent impulse is to use the camera as a branding iron -- the right pictures are blunt, scorching and indelible. That they can also look raw and haphazard is merely proof that...
Companies that decide to live with AIDS have generally succeeded in defusing the worries of other employees by educating them on the difficulty of being infected by the disease on the job. When two workers at the daily Portland Oregonian came down with AIDS last spring, Personnel Director Frank Lesage called small meetings among 350 company employees to discuss the issue and handed out literature on the disease. Says Lesage: "They were not happy with the news, but they were glad we were up front about our policy...
...management style, as well as her insensitivity to the atmosphere of nepotism created by the fact that her brother-in-law and sister held bureau jobs, as did her husband, Officer Bruce Gary Harrington. The commission questioned the friendliness the chief and her husband had shown to a Portland businessman being investigated in a cocaine probe; it recommended a 25-day suspension of Gary Harrington. Penny Harrington, who declared herself "shocked" by the findings, was almost certainly made more vulnerable by the mayor's own troubles: Clark is the target of a recall effort...