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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hayes said that the government needs to take a more active role in preventing the type of behavior that leads people to commit crimes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group Objects to Death Penalty | 3/12/1996 | See Source »

...lonesome end of an Ozark bar, acquires the artless profundity of a cry for help. Patty Loveless started life as Patty Ramey, married drummer Terry Lovelace and later modified the surname. It turned out Loveless perfectly fit her musical taste. Her songs catalog every sin a man can commit, every pain a woman can bear. If you turn on the radio and hear a strong heart breaking, chances are it's the one in that plangent Loveless voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SHE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...same logic holds for abortion: Pro-choice supporters have implicitly resolved that abortion is not murder. If it is murder, they cannot logically explain their decision that one has the right to commit such a terrible wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alliance Holds Moral Ground | 3/6/1996 | See Source »

Shakur seems to have decided that if people were going to criticize him for things he wasn't doing, if the justice system was going to convict him of a crime he claims he didn't commit, well, then, he was going to become the most dysfunctionally fearsome gangsta in America just to spite them all. In Wonda Why They Call U Bytch he offers up a dishearteningly crass justification for calling women cruel names. In Ambitionz az a Ridah he raps, conspiratorially, "Now these money-hungry bitches gettin' suspicious/ Started plottin' and plannin' on a scheme to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: OUT OF JAIL--AND IDEAS | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A controversial 5-4 Supreme Court ruling Monday gave the government increased power to expropriate property used to commit crimes. The Court ruled that the 1988 seizure of a car used by a man for an assignation with a prostitute was legal, even though the confiscated car belonged to the man's wife. Tina Bennis, the owner of the car, argued that the government's taking of her 1977 Pontiac violated her constitutional rights to due process of law and compensation for seizure. In an impassioned dissent from the Court's decision, Justice John Paul Stevens called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Court Upholds Property Seizure | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

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