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While at Amherst, Turow had two stories accepted by the Transatlantic Review ; also, during a Christmas break back home, he had a blind date with Annette Weisberg, an art major at the University of Illinois and a near neighbor whom he had never met before. With graduation approaching, he was offered a fellowship to study creative writing at Stanford. "What was the alternative? A job!" So to the dismay of four parents, he and Annette set out for California...
...nettlesome issues, ranging from doctrinal discipline to the role of women in the church, on which the Pontiff and the U.S. prelates do not see eye to eye. By coincidence, one of their most vexing disputes was settled just days earlier, in District of Columbia Superior Court. Judge Frederick Weisberg ruled that the Catholic University of America had every right to follow John Paul's dictates by removing from its theology faculty Father Charles Curran, an outspoken professor who questions church policies on birth control, abortion, homosexuality, premarital sex and divorce...
...White House, along with many conservatives and libertarians as well as liberals, opposes national service on the ground that it would be an unnecessary intervention by the Government into people's lives. Some wonder how a program could be enforced. "What are you going to have?" asks Alan Weisberg, a youth-employment consultant in Oakland. "Criminal penalties for those who don't work...
...1920s and was featured in a 1923 Broadway musical, Helen of Troy, New York. Arrow retired the figure in 1931. Now, an '80s version of the man-about-town, painted by Leroy Neiman, is the star in the latest Arrow ad campaign. Says Vice President of Advertising Larry Weisberg: "The Arrow man gives us vitality...
...Weisberg said that polls have consistently underestimated King grassroots support. Press secretary John Demeter recalled King's unsuccessful 1983 mayoral campaign, when polls incorrectly predicted that the candidate would not survive the primary election...