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...arranged blind dates for White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, was chosen for the Oct. 11 session. ABC political director Hal Bruno and correspondent Carole Simpson will be on later panels. NBC, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal have declined to participate, objecting to the protocol giving the candidates a say in choosing panel reporters...
...experiment reported last week involved an English husband and wife who already had a child with cystic fibrosis and were worried about having another. Doctors followed the standard in vitro fertilization protocol, using hormones to stimulate the production of extra eggs, which were then mixed with sperm in a Petri dish. Two of the resulting embryos tested positive for cystic fibrosis. The rest were O.K., and two of them were implanted in the mother's womb. One became Chloe O'Brien, a healthy child who will neither get cystic fibrosis nor pass it on to her offspring...
...breakthrough on access occurred in the fall of 1991 when Biblical Archeology Review of Washington capped a lengthy crusade by publishing a bootleg computerized reconstruction of the texts. Specialized research libraries then decided to ignore scholarly protocol and allowed outside experts to examine photos of the unpublished scrolls. Finally the Review published its own photo books...
Asked to explain more fully her husband's relationship with Jennifer Fitzgerald, a former appointments assistant who now serves as deputy chief of protocol at the State Department, Mrs. Bush described it as "employer- employee." Says Mrs. Bush: "She's a good friend of mine. I mean, it's so ugly, the whole thing. And it's been very deceitful and harmful and ugly. I haven't seen Jennifer, but my heart goes out to her. This is just mean." She said the two had not spoken because Fitzgerald was out of the country...
What is missing from the book is Fidel. As in real life, he pulls the strings offstage, but he is rarely glimpsed up close. He appears for gloomy late-night ruminations with author Gabriel Garcia Marquez at a protocol house outside Havana and in a visit with children ages 6 to 14 where he drones on for three hours about the dialectics of Che. In the end, Oppenheimer doesn't make a convincing argument that Fidel is in his "final hour." His reporting, in fact, illustrates precisely how Castro remains in power: through a combination of personality, national pride...