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...great Marv Albert. Two weeks ago Marv plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of assault and battery, putting an end to the trial which held him accused of biting and sexually assaulting 42-year-old Vanessa Perhach. Marv was promptly fired by NBC. Dartboard believes that the trial was a sham and that the network's action was an injustice...
...public to Princess Diana, before and after her death, is symptomatic of the depths to which our sensibilities have sunk. We put great stock in what people appear to be or project themselves to be, rather than in what they are, even when the two images, the sham and the real, are obviously in conflict. The case of the Princess of Wales may open our eyes. But the fault did not lie with Diana. She was just a normal, healthy young woman, with human desires and all too human failings. The fault lies with our society, which...
...time to restore the time-tested theological basis for annulment: the unchallengeable determination of an unconsummated union of a male and female. Today's Catholic annulment process is a sham. The permanent canonical severance of a couple previously regarded as formally joined needs to be called something else, like "canonical dissolution" or "Catholic divorce." No one, not even God, has ever unscrambled an omelet. The present-day annulment is comparable to divorcing children from their parents. MICHAEL A. IACONA SR. Littlestown...
...another sham physical examination, a recruiter made a potential recruit who had a possible back-alignment problem pose for him in her bikini "so he could see whether or not her [back] would meet the doctor's approval...
...intellectual and physical repression of the populace through a sham of a justice system, a terrorist police force and a corresponding expansive network of laogai, the Chinese brand of gulag, Deng was an enemy of liberty itself--and he well deserves the authoritarian status he was this week denied...