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...aliases even carry over to real life. Okusanya says he’s entered as “Azazel” on Lambert’s phone, for example. Caleb I. Franklin ’05 chooses more historically inspired names, one of his favorites being “Dred Scott...

Author: By V.e. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Games Perpetual Adolescents Play | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

Perez stifled the urge to rush to the aid of the downed men; he knew he would be mowed down if he tried. Instead he stood and began blazing away with his M-4 rifle. That forced the al-Qaeda fighters to take cover in the rocks several hun-dred yards away--and stop firing--as the wounded Americans limped to a safer spot. "He showed almost no concern for his body," says Sergeant Jeffrey Grothause, one of Perez's soldiers. "He's up there, and rounds are flying all around him, in between his legs, and he doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soldier: Sudden Warrior | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...institution that makes principled decisions of law--not merely partisan choices. And every major decision the court gets wrong does lasting damage to its standing. The court has made mistakes in other critical moments in our nation's history, and it has never completely lived them down: the Dred Scott decision in 1857, upholding slavery, and Koramatsu v. United States, which approved the internment of Japanese-Americans during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Court Recover? | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...Jesse Jackson says the Supreme Court's action was equivalent to the Dred Scott decision - and we all know where the Dred Scott decision led. (Nonetheless, Jackson, with his demagogue's mastery of footwork, phoned the President-elect to talk unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unity, Vote Counts and Other Illusions | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...legal fight that splashed read and blue paint all the way up the Supreme Court steps. They were cynical about politics before; now they know how far politics goes. But it wasn't the stuff of revolution then and it won't be now. Unless Jesse "this is Dred Scott" Jackson really catches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, the End Is Near | 12/13/2000 | See Source »

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