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...subsequently summarized in a TIME cover story, "The Fraying of America" ((Feb. 3, 1992)). Among his complaints: the distortion of the ideals of multiculturalism, the erosion of the English language by partisans of the Politically Correct, the decline of education, the damage to politics and the culture in general wrought by extremists on both the left and the right. And that's only Lecture...
...with choices, none of them pleasant, Pope John Paul II accepted the resignation of Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez, 59, of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Accusations of sexual encounters between the Archbishop and as many as five women had hit the archdiocese like an earthquake, compounding the heavy damage already wrought by a series of sexual-misconduct allegations against lower-ranking clergy. The Pope named Bishop Michael J. Sheehan of Lubbock, Texas, as a temporary replacement to restore confidence and stability...
Watson and Crick reflect on the revolution they wrought...
...informant told investigators that Arnaldo Forlani, an ex-Prime Minister and former head of the Christian Democrat Party, had conspired with Craxi to split payoffs for government contracts. Forlani denied the charges. And members of the Italian Social Democratic Party are suspected of accepting illegal contributions. The damage wrought by the ongoing scandals may be irreparable. Italian newspaper headlines are flatly proclaiming the end of the First Republic, as Italy's postwar democracy is known. With 51 governments since 1945, it would be hard for the second republic not to be an improvement on the first...
...actually began in January, shortly after Zuckerman bought the News for $36.3 million. Once the top tabloid in the U.S., with a circulation of 3 million (now 777,000), the paper had been crippled by a strike and a hemorrhaging of advertising revenues wrought largely by the recession. Zuckerman could not hope to go head to head against the steady New York Times, but he had to be concerned about two other dailies. One was the genteel, struggling New York Newsday, once described by a News editor as "a tabloid in a tutu." The other, to be sure...