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...Your Son Has Violated Sacred Principles. The fact that Charles and Camilla are proven adulterers is no concern of mine. I'm no moralist, and I'm also a realist. I fully accept and understand that chastity among top-rank British royals is rarer than literacy among American presidents. What troubles me, however, is Prince Charles' flagrant disregard for natural law - the law of the jungle, not the law of heaven - in spurning a very young, attractive woman for a plainer specimen one year his senior, to whom he's stayed faithful, by all appearances, until this very...
Despite Maine's duo of top-rank hurlers, Crimson Captain Bruce Weller said yesterday it really didn't make any difference" which team won the ECAC. "The teams who get to the playoffs get there because of good pitching," he said, citing top-pitchers at Temple and Seton Hall as examples "You just can't expect to get that many runs...
...were selected by TIME 20 years ago. Among the credentials that TIME took into account: imaginative staff coverage of regional, national and foreign issues; liveliness in writing, layout and graphics; national impact achieved through general enterprise, command of some particular field of coverage or a track record of training top-rank younger journalists...
...reporters is the growing use of leaks by Government sources. The term leak implies a breach of security and calls to mind the image of a disgruntled lower-level employee seeking to embarrass his boss. In fact, in almost every modern Administration, the majority of "leaks" have come from top-rank presidential aides, Cabinet members and other senior officials who want to get information or a point of view across to the public. Last week, for example, Reagan's top aides indicated their displeasure with Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, through a leak...
...this year. Turner's troubles have led many industry observers to predict that within the next year or two he will have to sell or take in a partner, or else see CNN go bankrupt (the total value of his holdings: $250 million to $300 million, says a top-rank video executive). Turner's financing includes $50 million in loans at steep interest from Citicorp and Manufacturers Hanover Trust. In borrowing from them, he estimated losses of $32 million from CNN's start through the first half of this year; he is $6 million over that total...