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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale Law School Professor Abraham Goldstein, "those who look to criminal law to shore up weakened social supports see the insanity defense as a call to battle." The same kind of Administration thinking that hoped to tamper with the exclusionary rule has allowed the Justice Department to exploit the burst of media attention and attack a straw...

Author: By Nicolas J. Mcconnell, | Title: Love Means Never Having to Say You're Guilty | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

...optimism. Transpose the last two digits, he suggested: 1984 is really 1948. Mondale is Harry Truman, with a handsome, vindictive grin, flourishing the headline of the Chicago Daily Tribune. Conjuring doubts to keep the pundits honest. The great hyperkinetic exercise had come to its final stage, like the jitterbugging burst at the end of a '30s dance marathon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Polls at Last | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...aides to rush to the nearest airport. At 12:30 p.m., while Rajiv waited for a helicopter to take him to Calcutta, he switched on his transistor radio to hear the BBC relay the news that his mother was in critical condition. Some of the Congressmen in his party burst into tears, but Rajiv told them, "Don't worry. She's tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indira Gandhi: Death in the Garden | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...next play, Vignali took the handoff and burst through a hole for the opening score. Junior Rob Steinberg's point-after put Harvard...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Quakers Smash Crimson's Ivy Hopes, Blowing Out Harvard in 38-7 Debacle | 11/10/1984 | See Source »

Campaign workers who had been at the polls earlier in the day confidently spoke of strong support for their candidate, and when WBZ-TV reported that the Lieutenant Governor was leading his Republican opponent by 22 points as the party was getting under way, there was only a short burst of bored applause...

Author: By Michael F.P. Dorning and Charles C. Matthews, S | Title: Little Suspense at Senate Parties . . . | 11/7/1984 | See Source »

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