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Nevertheless, once the information of Hart's misconduct was known, to bury the story would have been an insult to the voting public. Representative democracy relies on the free and accurate dissemination of information; the press whenever possible should avoid passing prior judgement on what the public does and does not need to know. "Hear no evil, see no evil," may be appropriate for monkeys, but not for a democracy...
Skinny Island: More Tales of Manhattan offers one of those occasions. The subtitle harks back to an earlier collection, Tales of Manhattan (1967), but the twelve stories assembled here need no prior introductions. The book is a self-contained progression in time: the first story, A Diary of Old New York, occurs in 1875, and the last, The Takeover, sometime in the 1980s, perhaps yesterday. The pieces are connected not just chronologically and geographically but by a common concern as well: the dilemma faced by comfortable people when they must choose between honor and expediency...
...Bakker would never minister again at his former domain in Fort Mill, S.C. Bakker had relinquished control of PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) to Falwell, a Fundamentalist Baptist, after confessing that he had paid $265,000 in hush money to cover up his adultery. But prior to last week's board meeting at PTL, Bakker had wired Falwell that it seemed time for a comeback...
...addition, the CUE's new computer-read evaluation forms ask students to use a one-to-five rating scale, instead of the one-to-seven scale used in prior years...
...focus of the current power struggle between the country's financial giants. The battle is as much psychological as political. The legislation, which also created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, was enacted to protect the public from irresponsible banks like those that invested depositors' savings in highly speculative securities prior to the Great Crash of 1929. As a result, the separation of commercial and investment-banking functions by Glass-Steagall still has tremendous populist appeal. But in official Washington, as Fed Chairman Volcker put it in Senate testimony last January, opposition to giving commercial banks access to the investment-banking...