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TIME writer-reporter John Cloud believes the numbers reveal that "the Pentagon as an institution isn't behind the policy." Implementation, he says, "largely depends on the commitment of the commanding officer. The situation is one in which the commander-in-chief is largely powerless to enforce his own policy." Though the discharge numbers are up -- and something of an embarrassment for the Pentagon -- the new policy has improved the situation for gays in one significant way: "Homosexuals no longer get a dishonorable discharge when they leave," says Cloud. "That means they get to keep their benefits...
...that the relationship was condoned by her sister Hilary. When excerpts appeared in the London Sunday Times, outraged fans and friends of Jacqueline's vilified the book, charging that it sullied one of Britain's greatest virtuosos. Hilary and Piers defend their memoir as an attempt to reveal the personal side of their sister and argue that the excerpts played up the sensational parts of the story. "If people only read those extracts, yes, I can understand how they were upset and disappointed," says Hilary...
Such scenarios are not science-fiction. With the prestidigitation of gene-amplification, only a single drop of blood or a snippet of hair or a scraping of skin can reveal the full length of the human genome, including its myriad flaws. And the potential for abusing that information is already here, as a surprised Paul Billings found in surveys of testing abuses that he conducted. "I advertised for people who had had negative experiences with social agencies, insurers or employers after genetic diagnosis, and I was shocked by the response." The most common complaint was against hard-nosed health insurers...
...Washington establishment have been taking a beating for getting this one so totally wrong. But that's not fair. What about you? Suppose someone told you a year ago that the big story of 1998 would be a sex scandal involving the President and that it would reveal a great "disconnect" between Washington and the rest of the country. Then suppose you were asked to guess who was on which side. Put aside your own views on Presidents, oral sex, interns, perjury and so on. Would you have predicted that Washington would be outraged and the rest of the country...
...soon to predict that Congress will return to normal anytime soon. Flynt cheerfully declared last week that the Livingston reports were "just the beginning." He has a list, he said, of a dozen straying politicians, including one Republican Senator who participated in a "threesome." Hustler says it may reveal more names at the start of the New Year. Even with Livingston gone, the era of sexual scandal his name will be part of shows every sign of enduring...