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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tricaud argued that sending Einhorn home to America would violate his civil liberties. The French have trials in absentia, but someone so convicted in France gets a new trial once captured. Extradite Einhorn, and he could be put to death with no chance to defend himself, Tricaud wrongly told the judges. (Einhorn's sentence was life in prison, not death.) In a later interview, an adamant Tricaud described the case as an opportunity for the French to "give the United States a lesson in human rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capture of the Unicorn | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

According to another complaint Amaral says she filed with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR), at this point Queen "came from behind me and started yelling to me and talking over me so that I would not be able to talk to Dean Shinagel...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Complaint Filed Against Two Extension School Deans | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

Before a standing-room-only crowd in the Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School last night, Heston said the nation is "engaged in a great civil war, a cultural war, that is about to hijack your birthright to think and say what lives in your heart...

Author: By Richard J. Wegener, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Heston Lays Down Commandments at Law School | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

Heston objected to the term "African American," noting that, when he worked with civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., society was less sensitiv about terminology...

Author: By Richard J. Wegener, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Heston Lays Down Commandments at Law School | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

Others skipped the bridge entirely. They drove to the 21st century on the ground below--driving to work, driving their kids to soccer practice, driving to Blockbuster to rent "Titanic," driving to Barnes and Noble to buy "A Civil Action" and "Cold Mountain." Every so often these people snuck a glance up at the bridge to nowhere; after all, the ugly, low-hanging structure (which they were paying for) cast a heinous shadow over their idyllic suburban landscapes, insulting their aesthetic sensibilities and corrupting their children. And it paid to look up occasionally, if only to make sure you weren...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Throw Us a Rope | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

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