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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For two years, Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie L. White, the state's first African-American Supreme Court judge, languished somewhere in the Senate Judiciary Committee, his nomination to a Federal District Court post on hold. During a 1998 re-election campaign, Missouri's slightly less conservative senator, Kit Bond...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Political (and Other) Casualties in Missouri | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

Bush may be right about the American people. In 1992 voters threw his father out of office in favor of a Democrat with a potent intellect and an encyclopedic command of everything from GATT to the gap in wages. But Americans learned that Bill Clinton has far less command over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Why Bush Doesn't Like Homework | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

It was this Gatesean religion, this take-no-prisoners holy war, that got Microsoft in trouble with the antitrust division--and that runs as a leitmotif through Jackson's findings. But if Gates' character explains the past of this lawsuit, it may also foretell its future. Shortly after Gates hinted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft Enjoys Monopoly Power... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

As television's best-known shrinks, BOB NEWHART and KELSEY GRAMMER have treated their fair share of eccentrics. Now that the two have joined practices for a movie, they are playing somewhat neurotic characters themselves. In the upcoming Showtime film How Doc Waddems Finally Broke a 100, Newhart plays golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 15, 1999 | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Denzel Washington is a quadriplegic forensics expert. Angelina Jolie is a young N.Y.P.D. beat cop who discovers an ugly crime, an unsuspected gift for intellectual detective work and, eventually, a romantic attachment to Washington's character as the two try to ensnare a particularly unpleasant serial killer. The movie doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bone Collector | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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