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...plugged the show as the first-ever confrontation on the same stage between candidates of the two major parties, whetting appetites over the prospect that the candidates would be questioning each other. Did this mean there would be a Tuesday Night Main Event of Robertson vs. Jackson, with Dukakis vs. DuPont, Simon vs. Dole and Gephardt vs. Bush on the undercard...
...million Americans with serious drinking problems, life is a runaway roller coaster that, left untended, inevitably leads to disaster. "It ruins everything that matters to you," says New York Times Reporter Nan Robertson, a recovered alcoholic. "In the end, the bottle is your only friend. Alcoholics would rather do anything than stop drinking." For the vast majority of Americans, the occasional social drink is a harmless affair. For the afflicted, however, the most innocent gathering of family or friends -- a wedding at a suburban country club, a casual gathering on an urban sidewalk -- can turn into a nightmare of temptation...
...Times Mirror company published the latest installment of its "People, Press & Politics" survey. Two-thirds of the 1,501 Americans polled by the Gallup Organization said journalists had gone "too far" in reporting the Hart-Rice story. The same proportion disapproved of the revelation about the date of Pat Robertson's wedding, which occurred after his first child was conceived. But significant pluralities felt that the press had "acted properly" in reporting Joe Biden's plagiarism as well as the role of Michael Dukakis' campaign staff in Biden's downfall...
...number of reasons, including his claim to high idealism. But the disclosures were so heavy in volume and derisive in tone that they became the defining facts about a candidate who was still little known to most voters. By contrast, when the Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Robertsons married ten weeks before their son was born, the information was contained in two sentences midway through a long profile, where it belonged. Then the Washington Post, which had done a detailed story pointing out other discrepancies in Robertson's bio, used that new fact as the centerpiece of a second...
After a long hiatus, Band Ringleader Robbie Robertson is back with a new album rooted in American Indian spirituality...