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...hottest story in Washington, D.C. during the past two weeks was not the Pentagon procurement scandal, but rather the controversy surrounding syndicated columnist Carl Rowan's shooting of a teenaged intruder who had been swimming in his backyard pool...
...strategy was to depict Regan as a cad, astrology as harmless, Nancy as vulnerable and Ronnie as aggrieved. "I was taken aback by the vengefulness of the attack," the First Lady said. "It comes through that Don Regan doesn't really like me." At a lunch with Columnist Carl Rowan, Reagan played the angry husband. "I'll be damned if I just sit by and let them railroad my wife," he said. He noted that Nancy was upset for having caused the furor, but Reagan then told her, "No, honey, I brought all this down on you by taking this...
...Rowan and Martin's TV Laugh-In domesticated chaos into snippets. It flashed absurdities, like vaudeville on amphetamines -- Goldie Hawn dancing in body paint, Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips. Laugh-In gave the nation "You bet your sweet bippy!" and "Sock it to me!" a line that Republican Candidate Richard Nixon, among other celebrities, recited in three seconds of network time in September. (In deference to his dignity, Nixon was spared the customary dousing with a bucket of water.) The Rolling Stones snarled about the Street Fighting Man. Never before had an annus mirabilis transpired before the television cameras...
...push to recategorize the leopard is based on a five-month study, conducted in 23 countries by Rowan Martin, chief ecologist for Zimbabwe's department of national parks and wildlife management, and Belgian Biologist Tom de Meulenaer. The pair used eyewitness accounts and statistical computer modeling to estimate Africa's leopard population at a healthy 700,000 to 850,000. The 75- to 150-lb. cats have even been sighted recently on the outskirts of Nairobi. The biologists went so far as to recommend the resumption of international trade in leopard skins. The best approach to leopard management, they argue...
Staking their argument on rhetorical ploys, political columnists such as Carl Rowan and Murray Kempton have condemned the jurors for sanctioning societal prejudice. A Black guy who shoots four white guys would never get off, they say. But if the jurors were to let a hypothetical Black assailant off, would Kempton and Rowan rest easier? They should not, because they would in effect be standing up for the principle that people scared of young tough kids are justified in using deadly force...