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...guilty of poor judgment, possible rights violations, skulduggery and potential libel. The media use the First Amendment as a shield for their lack of ethics, their use of yellow journalism and their reporting of rumors with reckless disregard for the damage caused to the people involved. ROBERT V. RIGHTER JR. St. Louis, Missouri...
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE: A nine-bishop panel is meeting to determine whether retired Bishop Walter Righter should be tried for heresy for his ordaining Barry Stopfel,a non-celibate gay, as a deacon. The debate centers on whether the Episcopal church has any sort of doctrine on sexual morality. A decision is expected sometime this week, but for the church, any decision will have serious implications. "The church is in a real lose-lose situation here," says Religion correspondent Richard Ostling. "On the one side, they have a large contingent of conservatives who are morally opposed to ordaining gays or lesbians...
Such failures make up only isolated counts of a wider indictment. British journalist Rosemary Righter, whose new book critiquing the U.N. is called Utopia Lost, notes that the planetary problem solver figured as a mere bystander in the climactic upheaval of the past 50 years: the Soviet empire's collapse, Germany's unification and the cold war's end. She says, "This was probably the greatest political challenge of this decade, yet it didn't occur to the Russians or East Europeans or anyone else that the U.N. was relevant...
Willis Robertson was a states'-righter opposing Bush's bold civil rights views. When Gore led the fight to expand the federal highway system, Robertson fought him. "We used to get together at prayer breakfasts," remembers Gore. "Willis used to tell good stories. He was a man of good humor...
Anyone who wanted to buy the toy company Selchow & Righter in 1984 would have paid an outsize price, like $200 million or so. At that time the company was hotter than hot, thanks to the board game it manufactures, Trivial Pursuit. But last week, when the company finally agreed to be sold, it went for a much smaller price: $75 million. The firm's acquirer: Coleco, the company that manufactures another smash hit, Cabbage Patch dolls...