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...admires the aging Don Dom. "Early on," he writes, "he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred guilty men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot...
...court went further than the most ardent civil libertarians had dreamed. In a striking 175-page memorandum that was published online within minutes of being handed down, the judges declared the Internet a medium of historic importance, a profoundly democratic channel for communication that should be nurtured, not stifled. Because the Net is still in its infancy, the judges said, it deserved at least as much constitutional safekeeping as books and newspapers, if not more. "As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed," wrote Judge Stewart Dalzell in an eloquently crafted opinion, "the Internet deserves the highest protection...
...basic 14th Amendment doctrine. To be sure, most Republican politicians would indignantly--and sincerely--deny that they wish to execute women who procure abortions. But that just illustrates that many of them support the antiabortion platform, not out of heartfelt conviction, but as a pander to an especially ardent interest group. Still, it's their language. Dole and others voted for it in the past, even if they fudge this time around...
CASHING A REALITY CHECK Earthy-voiced troubadour TRACY CHAPMAN has long cast herself as a rootsy folk heroine. Trouble is, she's always preferred to keep her distance from real-life record-buying folk. In concerts, even the most ardent acclaim left her stonefaced and unmoved. Much of her time was spent holed up in her San Francisco mansion. Fans eventually repaid the favor: Chapman's last two albums sank with nary a trace. Well, the reality check has finally arrived. Chapman now reads fan mail aloud in concerts. The new style is helping: last week her latest album...
...Daugherty is forgotten and senile. Katrina Taylor, his lovely, highborn wife in the new novel, was evoked in Billy, as she was in Ironweed. The leading character of the Pulitzer-prizewinning Ironweed was an alcoholic ex-baseball player, Francis Phelan. In the new novel he is Katrina Daugherty's ardent young lover...