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...Virgin Islands Daily News of St. Thomas won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism -- the most prestgious of the annual journalism awards -- for its reporting on the links between the region's crime wave and corruption in the criminal justice system. Coverage of crime poverty, illiteracy and drug abuse dominated the other categories, whose winners were announced this afternoon. Among them: Washington Post writer Leon Dash and photographer Lucian Perkins won the explanatory journalism prize for their book-length profile of a District of Columbia family's struggle with poverty. The national reporting award went to Tony Horwitz...
Sheinberg, a brassy American entrepreneur, wanted to diversify his business, but the conservative Japanese refused. Like Godzilla in hibernation, Matsushita sat in its Osaka cave, occasionally emerging to roar No! "Sid would have bought Virgin Records, he would have bought nbc," says Irving Azoff, MCA's former music boss. "He was really frustrated that the Japanese wouldn't let him do any of that." The brokered marriage was soon looking as vulnerable as Lyle Lovett's to Julia Roberts. And Ovitz, the canny matchmaker, was apparently unwilling or unable to save...
These clashing interests and interesting clashes all converge in a nefarious scheme to mine gold in the world's largest remaining virgin cloud forest, in Costa Rica. Left battles right, state clashes with university, and faculty members pummel one another in front of TV cameras. Some of them see the campus as a marketplace, some as a battlefield, some as a pickup joint and some as a "passing microclimate." None of them think it may be a place of learning. As Smiley notes wryly of one academic, "The well-known reluctance of midwesterners to talk about actual sums of money...
...recent years, the Jesus Seminar weighed Christ's actual words as reported in the Gospels, and agreed that in most cases he never said them. Last fall they considered the Virgin Birth, and 96% agreed it never happened. And last month, just in time for Easter, they took up the subject of the Resurrection. The invitation to reporters promised that the experts "will be drilling close to the nerve of the Christian faith...
...years and then see the miracle get rejected." But others suggest it could be stricter still. There is another major miracle-validating body in the Catholic world: the International Medical Committee for the shrine at Lourdes. Since miracles at Lourdes are all ascribed to the intercession of the Virgin Mary, it is not caught up in the saint-making process, which some believe the Pope has running overtime. Roger Pilon, the head of Lourdes' committee, notes that he and his colleagues have not approved a miracle since 1989, while the Vatican recommended 12 in 1994 alone. "Are we too severe...