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Sullivan is said to exert his considerablepolitical power in quiet conversations behind thescenes. His campaign goes on at communitygatherings, wakes, weddings and funerals--oftenseveral in a day, the year round. WalterSullivan's declaration of campaign expendituresshows charity donations and florists' bills by faroutnumber the usual payments for bumper stickersor newspaper advertisements...
...reproduction and genetics at the top of his list of emerging concerns. The possibility of selecting a child's sex, he contends, has "profound social implications." Advances in genetic screening that identifies whether the unborn individual will be subject to heart disease or cancer or schizophrenia raise a new round of issues. Would altering the defective genes in utero be ethically permissible, given the risk of unforeseen results for future generations? The moral dilemmas spawned by the high-tech world of biomedicine -- closer to salvation or Pandora's box? -- are sufficient to keep Callahan and his Hastings associates busy...
WORLD: The Persian Gulf reverberates with a new round of tit- for- tat retaliation...
...Raven" and "The Bells," in any good anthology, Edgar Allen Poe. By the Master of Disaster, the Big Daddy of Supersonic P-P-Pulse Rate. Each piece is guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poe-portion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little Weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let-errrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe...though they might make a mean...
Kayden created the New England Collegiate Croquet Association, the only such regional group in the country, two years ago. She said she moved the national championship match north for the first time in the tournament's short history because Southern schools, with their year-round sunshine, always held the advantage over their snowbound counterparts...