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After the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, Calif., gave front-page display to San Francisco's 1989 gay freedom-day parade, copy editor Bill Walter declared in a memo, "Bad things, disgusting things, inhuman things happen . . . But we don't have to describe every naked person, or show a photo of every dead body." The message was clear: "disgusting" things are better left off the front page. That is a dangerous mind-set for a journalist. Yet that spirit has permeated coverage of gay issues in general -- and of AIDS in particular...
Bush assesses the message and the emotion of the moment with aides. The notetaker rushes through a memo. The President's secretary, Patty Presock, copies Bush's own hand scratchings, and all of it is consigned to dark, barricaded cabinets, silent records of the next best thing to a face-to-face conversation...
...Sociology did not choose to make this a public debate on the educational legitimacy of Social Studies. An internal memo I wrote to the graduate students of my department urging them to teach in our program, and offering incentives for those who did so, was leaked by someone connected with Social Studies, and blown up by a writer at The Crimson eager for a by-line...
Patterson said recently that he sent hisinitial memo because he was concerned that too fewSociology graduate students were teaching in thedepartment, especially in the larger courses wherefirst-year students often make their choices aboutconcentrations...
With local CUT members pulling their children from schools and leaving their jobs, it would seem that something more is up. That feeling was heightened recently when Prophet sold the local building that houses the church's printing operation, a prime source of revenue. At least one internal church memo set last Friday as the day that members should be ready to go underground. Another memo quotes a representative of Guru Ma telling a shelter-group meeting, "You must do nothing but eat, sleep . . . and work at least twelve hours a day until the shelters are completed...