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Barbara Bush speaks her mind on abortion and joins Marilyn Quayle in the campaign spotlight...
...precise information regarding bisexuals' prevalence and practices is desperately needed. As agitation for bisexual rights increases, a clearer understanding of sexuality's origins is pivotal to the debate. One thing is already evident: more even than gays, bisexuals used to live in the shadows. Now they are entering the spotlight...
...that a journalist such as Maggie Tucker criticizes NBC and its Olympic coverage for sticking to one of the golden rules of journalism ("Coverage Fails to Inspire." August 4, 1992). That rule goes something like this: Follow the story. NBC was hardly the only news organization to spotlight Kim Zmeskal Newsweek even placed her on its cover. The fact is that she is well-known and was expected to do very well in her competition. The story is that she did anything but well, finishing tenth in the overall competition. Of course NBC focus on her as opposed...
...Dream Teamers were up against other kinds of obstacles. Weren't they just All-Stars, coach Chuck Daly was constantly being asked, or merely Hollywood Globetrotters? Why did they dominate the spotlight here? Why did they not stay in the Olympic Village? One reason was that 7-ft. millionaires are not easy to hide, and everywhere they went, the American players were mobbed by the stars of a hundred nations eager to have their picture taken with them, or just to catch a touch of sympathetic magic. Even El Loco, when asked why he wore the number 32, referred...
...maneuvering room is shrinking. The allies are determined now to rein him in lest the U.N. lose credibility and Saddam be tempted by further adventures. They plan to insist that Americans serve on future inspection teams, to spotlight every Iraqi evasion of U.N. resolutions, and to boost aid to Kurds and exiled opponents of Saddam. This week the Security Council is expected to take up a resolution permitting military strikes unless Baghdad stops attacking Shi'ites in the south. The strategy, says a U.S. diplomat, is to "keep Saddam...