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"The idea of having a person who committed a crime tell that they did it to the person they did it to and to try to have a reconciliation is a very appealing thing to me," she said. "That's what led me to this: a feeling that the time...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FBI Files Show HBS Forced Out Leftist Professor | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

All told, Gores record on gun control is not very impressive, and while his plans may sound more appealing to the uninformed American voter, they will ultimately prove ineffective in reducing violent crime. Bush brings a more pragmatic approach to gun laws, and his basic principles are reasonable. If he...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: A Sensible Perspective of Gun Control | 11/30/2000 | See Source »

Boies is used to cramming. He has struggled with dyslexia since childhood, and memorizes every detail to avoid having to read anything twice. A few days before Thanksgiving 1986, he was recruited to perform one of his most dramatic saves: appealing a jury verdict that assessed Texaco $10.6 billion for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAWYER WHO WOULD SAVE GORE: Master of the Impossible | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

Al Gore's effort to overturn the result of the presidential election in Florida was dealt a severe blow on Monday afternoon when Leon County Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls refused to order the hand recounts sued for by the vice president. First, said Judge Sauls, Gore's lawyers did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Presidential Legal Primer | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

We discussed why the Electoral College made sense back in 1787 and whether it still makes sense today. I tried to convince her that if her schoolmates were setting up a system to elect a student president, they might give each class one vote so that the candidates would spend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: The First Draft of History | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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