Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...share some stories of hislife. And what a life it is. Bob, by his ownadmittance, is a jack of all trades, dabbling inlandscaping, telecommunications, teachingharmonica, and exposing the corruption of cellphone carries in an upcoming Internet publication.Becoming increasingly animated with each anecdotethat pops into his head, Bob is no doubt eager tocapitalize on an audience that, for once, isn'tjust passively tuning in while waiting for thetrain...
...Lazarus, who was a clerk for former Justice Harry Blackmun, it features frank, behind-the-scenes assessments of the Justices and quotes from E-mail sent over the court's computers. The book discusses legal history and doctrines, but it is the tales out of school that will no doubt attract the most attention. Lazarus repeats accounts that Thurgood Marshall, the court's legendary first black Justice, watched soap operas during the workday, and says he let his law clerks do almost everything but cast his vote. Lazarus says it was "received wisdom" among the clerks that Justice Sandra...
What explains Jerry Springer's success? No doubt someone has a Theory of All Squalor stating that as politics becomes entertainment, and entertainment becomes reality, and reality becomes politics, then the leap from Monica Lewinsky to Jerry Springer is, well, something or other. Less ambitiously, we can offer this explanation: the fights. At the end of 1996, Multimedia, the company that syndicated the Springer Show, was sold and became part of the company now called USA Networks Studios. The USA executives were more liberal about what went on the air. Fights had often occurred but had been edited...
...away with telling people what to think without making most of them mad--no mean feat in this, the most independent-minded country in the world. I don't like your new, light, jazzy format. But you can't fight success. I'll be reading TIME, no doubt, for years to come. JOEL LAYNE Boise, Idaho...
...letters to the editor reflect praise and prejudice, hope and despair, doubt and certainty, love and hate, and make up a part of the history of that time [75 YEARS OF LETTERS, March 9]. It was a marvelous effort to combine and condense the newsworthy events of 75 years of TIME, but it was very thoughtful to include selected letters in the historical 75th-anniversary issue. The letters prove that values have shifted, thinking has changed, and outlooks are more insightful. Without the letters, the anniversary issue would have lacked a part of the history. MUSHTAQ A. CHOHAN Richmond Hill...