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Clinton is advocating a broader definition of hate crimes in a new bill that is now working its way through Congress. According to the president's Special Counsel for Civil Rights, Edward Correia, if more crimes are considered to be based on "hate," the criminals who commit them will face stricter sentences...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hate Crimes Targeted By New Bill | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

INDICTED. SEAN CARROLL, 35, EDWARD MCMELLON, 26, KENNETH BOSS, 27 and RICHARD MURPHY, 26, New York City police officers who fired 41 shots at unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo last month, setting off a storm of protests; on charges of second-degree murder; in the Bronx, New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...lessons of Velazquez's Las Meninas, which Sargent had copied in the Prado, sank very deep into his style and would produce curious effects tinged with melancholy, like the brilliant early portrait of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit--four slightly alienated-looking moppets, their white pinafores gleaming in a cavern of bourgeois shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A True Visual Sensualist | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

That's the good news. The bad news is that a subtle, often unconscious, bias toward ourselves, our kin and our friends can narrow altruism and color moral judgments. "Deception and hypocrisy are very human devices for conducting the complex daily business of social life," wrote Edward O. Wilson in Sociobiology (1975), which brought the new paradigm to the world's attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Anthropology Meets Psychology | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...program sparked by the discovery of fission late in 1938 would have found itself shorthanded. Most Allied physicists had already been put to work developing radar and the proximity fuse, inventions of more immediate value. Fermi and his fellow emigres--Hungarians Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann and Edward Teller, German Hans Bethe--formed the heart of the bomb squad. In 1939, still officially enemy aliens, Fermi and Szilard co-invented the nuclear reactor at Columbia University, sketching out a three-dimensional lattice of uranium slugs dropped into holes in black, greasy blocks of graphite moderator, with sliding neutron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atomic Physicist: ENRICO FERMI | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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