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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's just something that can't be done, because someone has to bring them. And it's hard for them to express themselves over the phone." As for the other victims in this tragedy, Kay's friend Kim Martin says, "I don't think anyone should have to die, but if Jackie had been put in jail like he should have been, he'd be alive today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO WAY OUT | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...turns enthralling and exasperating, with the emphasis on the former. David Foster Wallace brilliantly extrapolates cultural and commercial trends into a nightmarishly funny near future, where years are named after products. One of the many subplots involves a movie, Infinite Jest, that can literally make its viewers die laughing. Readers, beware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE BEST BOOKS OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...grown famous as a writer of crime fiction--by no coincidence--he has decided to re-open the case and his own wounds. Ellroy's search for his mother's killer transcends the personal; it is a gripping meditation on the men who kill and the women who die at their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE BEST BOOKS OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...Grossberg was not the only victim in the affair of Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. [SOCIETY, Dec. 2]. The two young parents were victims as well. We can speculate about what was going through their minds and how the two 18-year-olds let their newborn child die. However, this tragedy does not lessen the fact that society failed them in a major way. For some reason these two college freshmen from affluent backgrounds felt that they had no one to turn to--not their parents, their friends, professors or counselors. This tragedy should remind us of the fragile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...DIED. JOSEPH QUINLAN, 71, pioneer of the right-to-die movement who led a successful legal crusade to allow his adopted daughter Karen Ann Quinlan to "die with dignity" after she slipped into a coma in 1975; of cancer; in Wantage, New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 23, 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

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