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...liberal call to arms was proclaimed by Senator Ted Kennedy just hours after the nomination was announced. Said he: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists would be censored at the whim of Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advise and Dissent | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...action have come under grave question. The business of conducting covert wars in an open and democratic society has never come easily to the Pentagon either. America's armed forces traditionally resemble a sheriff prepared for a shootout on Main Street at high noon but not for a back-alley brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Army | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...public-interest law group. "It's going to come down to philosophy." A no-holds-barred tone was quickly set for the Senate debate in a scathing speech by Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Begins | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...with a high-priced lawyer in a three-piece suit who is threatening money damages." In the view of the real estate industry, the court's ruling tilts toward accountability. Explains Gus Bauman, litigation counsel for the National Association of Home Builders: "If a policeman walks up a dark alley with his gun drawn and wrongly shoots somebody, the city can be taken to court for damages. Why not zoning commissioners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: No Taking Without Paying | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...Hart camp's occasionally inconsistent challenge of the Herald's story begins with the assertion that Rice returned to the candidate's town house for just 15 minutes late Friday night to retrieve an address book. In this version, Rice left through the alley exit to spend the night at Broadhurst's nearby home, where she shared a king-size bed with Armandt. Far more perplexing is Hart's unshakable insistence that the group entered and left through the front door of the town house on two separate occasions on Saturday afternoon. During that period the Herald had as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall from Grace | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

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