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...decades, the liberals managed to score victories in the face of what should have been superior numbers. But even if they have lost ground slowly, they have lost it all the same. Last week as Burger was laid to rest, so too was another good bit of the Earl Warren legacy. When in a single day the court can rule against a black-majority voting district and in favor of public funding for a Christian student magazine--and for good measure approve a cross erected by the Ku Klux Klan in a public park--it can't be much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUL OF A NEW MAJORITY | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

Minutes later, gunfire erupted. Officers would later deny that they had fired on students. Others would say they had seen a sniper in the dormitory. But in the end, there would be no universally accepted reasons for the deaths of Phillip L. Gibbs and James Earl Green and the wounding of 12 other students...

Author: By Victor Chen, | Title: Class of 1970 Couldn't Escape National Campus Turmoil | 6/6/1995 | See Source »

...famous won a round against Britain's notoriously nosy tabloid newspapers last week. It all started when Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's brother, told a friend he was leaving his wife and taking his children to America. The story was credible: Spencer's wife Victoria Lockwood is undergoing treatment for eating disorders, and their marriage has been strained. But it was false: Spencer made the whole thing up to see whether his friend was leaking stories to the News of the World. Sure enough, the next day's front page carried the story, and Spencer came forward to reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1995 | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

PATERNITY ACKNOWLEDGED. By UNCLE DUKE, 21, con man/diplomat/substance abuser, now running an orphanage; in Aspen, Colorado. Lab tests revealed that "Earl," a child in Duke's care with a similarly high forehead and a penchant for shades is, in fact, Duke's son by a stripper. The proud father's reaction: "The feds won't pay me to take care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 22, 1995 | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

Costner surely hopes Waterworld returns him to top-star status. The film's trailer suggests a high-voltage adventure with a mythic overlay; James Earl Jones lends his patriarchal voice to images of hope and horror. Jones can also be heard promoting Judge Dredd. His voice is one of many summer-trailer talismans, along with '60s songs, computer imagery, sexual facetiousness of the sort pioneered by James Bond films, and a lot of urgent I-love-you's. In Fluke, one of the summer's few kids' movies, a boy whispers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEACH BLANKET LOTTO | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

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