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...across the land.'' Judge John Garret Penn is expected to rule on the case before the scheduled release of the commission's controversial report on pornography July 3. The commission said it had ''inadvertently'' dropped from its letter the name of the man who had supplied the list of suspect companies: the Rev. Donald Wildmon of Tupelo, Miss., a Methodist minister and founder of the ultraconservative National Federation for Decency. The Justice Department vigorously denied that it plans prosecutions and insisted that its ''fair-reply letter'' was not a McCarthyite tactic. ''There is not a blacklist,'' says Government Attorney Robert...
...ruled the country as a one-party democracy, the P.R.I. has never lost a presidential or gubernatorial election. That could soon change. The conservative, probusiness National Action Party has shown considerable strength in Chihuahua, the country's largest state, where elections will be held early next month. Many Mexicans suspect that the P.R.I. may lose the gubernatorial race--or win only by tampering with the results. In the present climate of unease, either outcome could prove incendiary. Small wonder that some P.R.I. officials are now reciting a gloomy slogan: ''We may win Chihuahua but still lose the country...
...wealth--to the court, and is barred from the securities business for the rest of his life. He still faces sentencing on July 9 on criminal charges. Levine could receive 20 years in prison and a $610,000 fine. But if he helps Giuliani to apprehend new suspects, the sentencing judge is more likely to grant him clemency. Both the SEC and Giuliani are also receiving information from the so-called Yuppie Ring, a group of young Wall Street professionals who, in a case unrelated to that of Levine, two weeks ago pleaded guilty to charges of insider trading...
This is why true believers suspect satirists, even those--as for liberals upset with the New Yorker--in their own camp. Satirists don't make crystal clear how you're supposed to read their work. They don't give you a road map to correct thinking, because a joke explained is neither funny nor persuasive. They give voice to the enemy's beliefs. And this makes it easy to call them traitors...
...South Carolina may in fact be "gayer" than many suspect. Andrew Roberts, CEO of Amro Worldwide, visited South Carolina after the state's tourism board expressed interest in the campaign, and says he toured several gay venues, including largely gay sections of mainstream beaches, in Charleston, Hilton Head Island and Myrtle Beach. "A few people in South Carolina need to wake up to what's going on in their state," he says. "There are more gay bars along that coastal strip than there are in Vegas...