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Date: 19 February 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Committee of Concerned Journalists reports over 40 percent of early news reports on probe of Pres Clinton's relationship with Monica S Lewinsky consisted of analysis, opinion and speculation, not factual reporting; says over third of reports were attributed to anonymous sources (M)
Date: 19 February 1998
By Jan Hoffman
Jan Hoffman
Law School Admission Council, in mailing signed by 164 of 179 law school deans, scores US News & World Report magazine's annual ranking of schools; deans comment, news conference; table; photo (M)
Date: 18 February 1998
By Todd S. Purdum
Todd Purdum
Sens Dianne Feinstein and Orrin G Hatch seek support for their bill to curb abuses of paparazzi who stalk celebrities, news conference at Screen Actors Guild, Los Angeles; bill would make it crime to chase someone in way that risks bodily harm in effort to photograph or record person for commercial purposes; would also make photographer's use of telephoto lens ground for civil trespassing suit if picture could not otherwise be taken without trespassing on private property; was narrowly drafted with aid of leading constitutional law professors, including Erwin Chemerinsky; photo (M)
Date: 19 February 1998
Editorial scores White House press secretary Mike McCurry's handling of Pres Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky; holds McCurry has obligation to provide information completely and promptly (M)
Date: 19 February 1998
By James Bennet
James Bennet
Clinton Administration aides seek to distance self from forum on Iraq at Ohio State University, Columbus, where Clinton's top foreign policy makers took verbal pounding from hecklers, students and worried parents; forum was bonaza for CNN, which moderated discussion and broadcast it live around world (M)
Date: 19 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Blessings Corp hires Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co to aid in evaluating strategic alternative to help the company, including possible sale or merger of company (S)
Date: 18 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hadco Corp agrees to buy Continental Circuits Corp for $185 million in cash and assumption of $33 million of Continental's debt (S)
Date: 18 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
IWL Communications Inc will buy Caprock Communications Corp and Caprock Fiber Network Ltd for about $124.5 million in stock (S)
Date: 19 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Louisiana-Pacific Corp agrees to sell its Weather-Seal window and door unit to American Architectural Products Corp (S)
Date: 18 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bell Sports Corp agrees to be acquired for $10.50 a share, or about $171.12 million in cash, by HB Acquisition Corp, company formed by investment funds Harvard Private Capital Holdings Inc and Brentwood Associates Buyout Fund II LP (S)