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...Harper & Row and the Reader's Digest Association were set to publish A Time to Heal, an account by Gerald Ford of his life and presidency. Shortly before the book was due out, the Nation (circ. 48,000), a leftist weekly, summarized Ford's account of his pardon of Richard Nixon, using a stolen copy of the book without Ford's permission. A U.S. district court ruled that the Nation had taken the former President's work in violation of the federal copyright laws, and directed the magazine to pay the publishers damages...
...barely grown despite a 12% increase in the number of baptized Catholics. American nuns, in particular, are becoming increasingly alienated from the church's position on the dominance of men. Sensitive to this problem, the American bishops voted unanimously at their annual meeting in Washington last week to publish a pastoral letter on women's problems in the church. This question "is one of the most serious facing the church today," declared Cardinal Bernardin. "We cannot responsibly ignore it or deal with it superficially...
Gambling and football, on the other hand, are Siamese twins. Most newspapers in the country publish predictions and the latest betting line. Anyone who doesn't believe that games have been fixed is a fool. This year millions of dollars will be bet on the Super Bowl and major college bowl games; whenever there is that kind of money at stake people are going to be tempted to protect their investment. Last year two former Boston College basketball players were sent to jail for fixing games. If gamblers could buy a couple of nobodies on an insignificant team, they could...
...garden's availability is not described in any College literature, says Epps. Harvard does publish a list of examples of space available to University groups, including the Science Center, Phillips Brooks House, and various classroom buildings. The Fly garden is not on that list, although Epps says, "We should consider putting it on in the future...
Clinton said he saw "funny business" in the fact that The Harvard Crimson did not publish a campaign advertisement...