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...secretly tape her phone calls after she filed for divorce. Lawyers for Radio Shack successfully argued that the company had no responsibility in the matter because it did not know what her husband planned to do with the device. "There would be nothing left to sell if we withdrew all the products that might be used illegally," says Robert Miller, a Radio Shack vice president. Besides, he adds, with unintended irony, it is not the company's business what customers do with the products "in the privacy of their own homes." But if the use of such devices becomes widespread...
...proposals we tentatively made about a year or so ago was a pilot program of non-public school choice where the public schools were demonstrably failing some students. In the end, the opposition -- from the teachers' union, school-board associations, school-administrative groups -- was so forceful we withdrew the proposal. One of the reasons I made the proposal was to penetrate people's consciousness that the need for fundamental reform is real and that we are serious about...
...conference was televised and that tape survives.) Finally Jeffries denies that--while serving on a CCNY search committee in 1985--he asked a candidate for an international studies post, Mitchell Seligson: "Why does a Jew like you want to teach at a college like this?" (Seligson eventually withdrew his name from consideration...
Call it the Anita Hill syndrome. Last week three women withdrew from testifying before a Senate subcommittee that is examining how sex discrimination keeps women out of the top corporate ranks. The Senate has some fences to mend...
...between. Spinal manipulation has been shown to alter the heartbeat and the acidity of the stomach, says Peter Curtis, a medical professor at the University of North Carolina, who studied the technique, "but whether you can cure a peptic ulcer or angina is another question entirely." The A.M.A. withdrew its earlier condemnation of chiropractic as a cult in 1988 -- after federal courts ruled it an unfair restraint of trade -- but it remains adamantly opposed to broad application of chiropractic therapy...