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...remain aloof from the natives' habits of mutual back scratching and looking the other way. So at least some of the talk around Little Rock against Starr sounds like sour grapes from a hometown nexus of business, law and government that likes to keep its dealings, including the dubious ones, within the family. Yet there are still some valid questions about prosecutorial overreach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Starr and His Operation | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

Suggestions of Presidential sexual misconduct and disdain for the law have disappointed the American people and the people of the world. Those who rely on solid leadership from Washington to navigate the important issues of our day are ill-served when legal troubles arising from dubious accusations distract the President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pain and Promise In Clinton Scandal | 2/3/1998 | See Source »

Branch's narrative is rich in historical ironies, none more telling than the gruesome discovery of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner on the same day that Lyndon Johnson used a dubious North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin as an excuse to enlarge a war he privately did not believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eyes Still On The Prize | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...When the Internet-powers-that-be work alone, however, the results are more dubious. Witness Intel's unveiling Tuesday of Quick Web technology, which will do little more than double the download of a 28.8 modem, while delivering clunky graphics and cached pages. Most surfers would likely prefer to wait for the wintel-Bell cartel to deliver. Next problem: how to handle traffic when everyone and their grandmother is sucking down a million bits a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DSL: Darn Speedy Link | 1/20/1998 | See Source »

...events have no doubt spurred much of the debate in the state legislature. Jeffrey Curley's tragic kidnapping and murder inspired Governor A. Paul Cellucci and others to press particularly hard for death penalty legislation. Likewise, the somewhat dubious conviction of Louise Woodward for second-degree murder gave legislators pause over voting to allow the state to put an individual to death...

Author: By Michael M. Rosen, | Title: Clearing the Underbrush | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

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