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Despite civic uproar, the Cincinnati show of Robert Mapplethorpe's photography is drawing over 2,500 viewers a day; previous exhibits drew 556 and 225 patrons daily...
...what count for the audience, not the faceless executives who ostensibly hire and fire them. David Burke, president of CBS News, found that out the hard way, when he suspended 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney last month for allegedly making offensive remarks about blacks and homosexuals. The uproar over the suspension was instant and unrelenting. Thousands of complaints from viewers poured in to CBS. Press critics chided the network for trampling on Rooney's free-speech rights. CBS colleagues, most notably 60 Minutes executive producer Don Hewitt, lobbied on Rooney's behalf...
...stepped-up spraying touched off a political uproar. The Los Angeles City Council unanimously asked the state to conduct further studies and examine alternatives. Moaned Los Angeles County Supervisor Ed Edelman: "Once, twice, O.K. People will accept that. But twelve times? I question what the health effects might...
...first half into a blowout six minutes later. He did answer Harvard's best second-half rally by swishing two straight off-balance three-pointers. And he did throw down that awe-inspiring take-off-from-the-foul-line-and-fly reverse dunk that left the arena in an uproar. But those were lucky. The stiff would have been shut out if Harvard hadn't been...uh... double-teaming down low, where Coleman was held to...uh...18 points on 9-of-13 shooting...
Almost obscured amid the uproar--and the later discovery of Soviet-made arm shipments to the region--were the very real connections between Harvard University and two of the slain...