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...point of all this craziness? If not to see dignified scientists make complete fools of themselves, it must be to reveal the true world of science and academics to an unsuspecting public, said John A. Barrett, official Ig Nobel referee and an administrative assistant in the physics department...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Howard Chua-Eoan, James Collins, Marta Fitzgerald Dorion (Operations), Nancy Gibbs, Bruce Handy, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Priscilla Painton, Barrett Seaman (Special Projects), Claudia Wallis...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Gregory Jaynes, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, John Rothchild, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Mark Alan Stamaty, Richard Stengel, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh...
...Paul Hill of violating the new federal abortion-clinic access law by shooting an abortion doctor and his bodyguard. He was also convicted of one federal firearm charge. Hill, acting as his own attorney, had played martyr in arguing the June 29 murders of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett were justifiable -- calling no witnesses, cross-examining no one and supplying burning rhetoric in lieu of evidence. His closing statement today: "This government is unjust because it does not protect innocent life. To the extent we take part in this evil, we must answer to God. May God help...
...people," Perot said last night on his favorite platform, CNN's "Larry King Live." All they have to do, he said, is vote only G.O.P. in November's House and Senate races, then let a Republican Congress drive for a few years. Idle chatter? TIME Washington contributor Laurence I. Barrett says the Perot movement's activists are already poised to boost Republican candidates -- with or without Perot's advice. Though they number just a few thousand, Barrett says, they may swing several House races where voter turnouts often dwindle below 35 percent: "These people take politics very seriously," says Barrett...