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...first waiver ever of a rule forbidding ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market, the Federal Communications Commission gave Rupert Murdoch permission to buy New York City's Post even though he owns the city's Fox TV affiliate. Murdoch had threatened to shut down the tabloid paper, which he has been running provisionally for months...
...York Times reported on February 28 of this year that a Harvard admissions officer sent a Black high school senior a letter offering to waive the usual January 1 deadline. The Times reported that when the student called to check on the deadline waiver, admissions officials denied knowledge of it until he mentioned he was Black. Black student leaders say the article unfairly implied that admissions officers, in the name of diversity, offered Black students preferential treatment in the admissions process...
Revelations that weapons from Virginia were flooding Washington, D.C. and New York streets prompted Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder to action. He proposed a bill that would limit an individual to one handgun purchase per month--with a waiver for serious collectors. It seems a matter of common sense; why would an individual need more than 12 handguns a year...
...founded in public health policy," according to AIDS Institute Executive Director Dr. Richard G. Marlink--Harvard officials were surely aware of a specific loophole in the restriction allowing travel for the purpose of attending a conferences such as the AIDS Conference. Indeed, such a waiver was obtained by organizers of the last International AIDS Conference held in the U.S., 1990's San Francisco conference, allowing HIV-positive individuals from other countries to participate...
...arrangements for this conference in 1989 and 1990 even though the 1987 regulation was on the books," Hank Shafran, a spokesperson for the Marriott Copley said yesterday. "Even with that regulation on the books, Harvard could have gone to the Department of Health and Human Services and requested a waiver for the 10-day period of the conference...