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...which Khomeini flew back to a tumultuous welcome in Tehran after 15 years in exile. He thus joins a handful of other world figures whose deeds are debatable?or worse???but who nonetheless branded a year as their own. In 1979 the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini met TIME'S definition of Man of the Year: he was the one who "has done the most to change the news, for better or for worse...
...Bernstein tried to reach Watergate grand jury members for information, a rash move that outraged Federal Judge John Sirica and nearly landed the pair in jail for violating the secrecy of grand jury proceedings. A warning from Deep Throat that the two might be targets of Government surveillance?or worse???plunged them into fears for their safety. Both suspected their phones might be tapped, their lives in danger. They never found evidence to support either fear...
...Muller first broached the idea of sperm banks in Out of the Night (1935), he suggested Lenin as a sperm donor. In later editions, Lenin was conspicuously absent, replaced on Muller's list by Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes, Pasteur, Lincoln and Einstein. Society could well be as fickle?or worse???about cloning. It might create a caste of subservient workers, as in 1984, or a breed of super-warriors out of a "genetics race" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. An even more hideous nightmare would be the "clonal farm," where anyone could keep a deep-frozen identical twin...
...every few years, Gould has been making them as though his time were running out. For him, the therapeutic validity of going from one project to another often outweighs aesthetic considerations. He is all too willing to forget that audience overfamiliarity may not necessarily breed contempt but something far worse???indifference...
...Department also has a "moral obligation" to the Gold Star Mothers of future wars, and I am sure that the mothers whose sons were killed or?worse???maimed, in the World War, would be the first to say: "Publish Mr. Putnam's book, or any other book that will help to outlaw wars...