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After disclosures this week that as many as 10 Brown University students may have been operating a prositution ring, administrators and students at the Providence campus are saying that unfair media coverage may tarnish the school's image...
...recent years, as we've grown up, a lot of us have come to revere those three branches of the government a little less. And the squabbling going on among liberals and conservatives over future appointees to the Supreme Court has managed to tarnish our image of the justice as a man who rises from a philosophically pure world to take his just and thoughtful seat in that large pristine white building in Washington that houses our greatest court...
...Geneva ranks among the roughest and least productive in the long annals of superpower negotiations. For the Reagan Administration, which gained substantial political luster in pushing for the talks, the opening session was an ominous reminder that an acrimonious and endlessly drawn-out contest of wills in Geneva could tarnish that luster. A prolonged stalemate might also downgrade any U.S.-Soviet summit to an exercise in atmospherics...
Revelations about the gifts do more than tarnish the reputation of Rickover, 84, who retired in 1982 after 59 years in the Navy. To executives at General Dynamics, such favors were part of the cost of doing business and keeping the cantankerous admiral happy. But to congressional budget cutters eyeing the Defense Department for excess fat, they are part of a broader investigation into charges that General Dynamics fleeced the Government of hundreds of millions in cost overruns. Those and other allegations have drawn the attention of investigators from five congressional committees, the Navy, the Justice Department and the Securities...
Your article "Torture: a Worldwide Epidemic" [WORLD, April 16] makes two references to my country, which has been subjected to a campaign by the Western press to tarnish its image and reputation. In Iran, stoning is not a form of torture but a punishment officially sanctioned by Iran's new penal code based on the holy Koran and Islamic Sharia. It is not used against political offenders but against ordinary criminals guilty of serious offenses like adultery and pederasty...