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...parts for perfect functioning. If a vital organ such as the heart, lung or liver gives out, the support systems are weakened as well. Patients are unrealistic when they expect every operation to be a medical miracle. But doctors are equally unrealistic when they try to play God. Beatrice Warren Aptos, Calif. Women...
...back into the act. Barbra Streisand, 43, the all-around auteur of 1983's Yentl, will soon direct an adaptation of the AIDS play The Normal Heart. And Elaine May, 53, an early-'70s trailblazer with her comedies A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid, is currently directing Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in Ishtar--at $30 million, the most expensive film ever entrusted to a woman...
Accordingly, among the most intent observers were some 20 members of Congress, including two of the law's chief sponsors, Republican Senators Phil Gramm of Texas and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, and one of its main opponents, Congressman Mike Synar, the Oklahoma Democrat who with eleven other members of Congress from both parties brought suit last December to invalidate the law. The legislation establishes declining annual deficit targets until the goal of a balanced budget is reached in fiscal 1991; failure by Congress and the President to meet those tar gets means that the Comptroller, who heads the General...
...crime. For the majority, Justice O'Connor acknowledged that the decision would cause plaintiffs to lose when "evidence is ambiguous," but she concluded that the "Constitution requires us to tip" toward protecting speech. Justice John Paul Stevens did not see the balance that way. In a dissent joined by Warren Burger, William Rehnquist and Byron White, he called the decision a "blueprint for character assassination...
...long as such key Rosenthal lieutenants as Gelb and Greenfield remain in place. Both, however, face mandatory retirement in less than three years, enabling Frankel to select his own deputies from a younger cadre of Times-men. Among the candidates: Assistant Managing Editor Craig Whitney, 43; Foreign Editor Warren Hoge, 45; and Metropolitan Editor John Vinocur, 46, who is expected to become editor of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, which is partly owned by the Times...