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Yoder often gets into such spats with the state. Their mutual animosity became routine in the '90s: every few months, Yoder went to court either because the state wanted to recommit him or because he had sued someone. An ineffective public defender usually represented him, and the same couple of state doctors testified against him. (Yoder couldn't afford his own lawyers and experts.) The same two or three judges overseeing his commitment trials would also toss out many of his lawsuits, even those complaining about his treatment at Chester...
...modern paranoid conspiracy tragicomedy. Seven Days in May and Seconds painted bleak portraits of an America at war with its best instincts. He sagged personally and professionally after the death of Robert Kennedy, whom he drove to the candidate's rendezvous with an assassin. The director rebounded in the '90s with such HBO films as Andersonville, George Wallace and The Burning Season; he won four Emmys...
...little improvement in the unemployment rate so far this year, are we heading toward another spell of cold comfort? That was the question TIME posed to its Board of Economists. "It will feel like a jobless recovery largely because our point of reference is the boom years of the '90s, when unemployment went all the way down to 3.9%," says Nariman Behravesh, chief economist for the consulting firm DRI-WEFA. "When it is up around 6%, it feels a lot worse...
...revolt was slow in coming, that may be because most Americans hate to hate the rich. They'd rather envy them and hope to get there themselves. The '90s offered a whole new breed of heroes, not starchy heirs to fortune but barefoot geniuses who discovered new worlds in their garages, who wrote best sellers and sat grinning from magazine covers and defended the billions they made on the grounds that they were making us all rich in the process. You did not actually need to get richer to feel richer; even other people's paper profits had a magical...
DIED. DANIEL CASE III, 44, who, as head of the high-tech banking firm Hambrecht & Quist, and later chairman of J.P. Morgan HQ, helped fuel the Internet explosion of the '90s; of brain cancer; in San Francisco. Case, brother of AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case, financed such Silicon Valley pioneers as Apple Computer, Adobe Software and Netscape Communications...