Word: wexlers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Polls are being taken again, of course, and last week Ferraro got a new set of campaign advisers to interpret the results. Campaign Manager Sasso was an aide to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis; Anne Wexler, a White House advisor to Jimmy Carter, will be Ferraro's senior political counselor. Along with Mondale's high command, Ferraro's staff will decide how she can campaign most effectively and keep the popular good will from fading. Ferraro also must get her positions in line with those of her running mate; already she has deferred to Mondale's opposition...
Despite its strong objections to overbearing Big Government, the Reagan Administration has been trying to intervene in the painful private dilemma of a Long Island, N.Y., couple with an incurably ailing child. Last week Federal District Judge Leonard Wexler, a recent Reagan appointee, threw out the U.S. Justice Department's unprecedented suit seeking the hospital records of the infant known as Baby Jane...
...Wexler found "no discrimination," only a great deal of caring. The hospital has always been willing to do the surgery, he pointed out, and failed to do so "not because Baby Jane Doe is handicapped but because her parents have refused to consent to such procedures." Wexler concluded that the parents' decision was a "reasonable" one based on a "genuine concern for the best interests of the child...
...they are designated in court documents, continue to visit Baby Jane in the hospital, where they feed and try to comfort her. Despite Wexler's ruling, said her father, "I don't feel any big celebration is in order yet." Indeed the Government later announced an appeal. "We've been in nearly every court but the U.S. Supreme Court," said Paul Gianelli, lawyer for the parents...
Almost a year later, right after finishing her Broadway run in The Pirates of Penzance and just before starting the movie version, she and Wexler spent four days in a New York studio working on an album that Ronstadt now thinks of as "an expensive rehearsal session. The tracks weren't right, the way they were recorded wasn't right, the way I sang them wasn't right. What's New and Good-bye I couldn't sing at all. But I could sing them in the shower, so I knew there was some thing...