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...Despite Monday's slap-down of Judge Guzman, Pinochet's legal road ahead remains blighted. To be sure, he's unlikely to elicit much sympathy from the same Chilean Supreme Court that last August stripped the general of the immunity from prosecution he'd authored for himself as a precondition for stepping down in 1990. Of course it's quite possible that the high court will uphold Monday's technical ruling, but its August decision presumably leaves the field open to Pinochet's accusers to simply keep trying. And that would leave the general's attorneys to fall back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pinochet Slows His Pursuers, but Remains on the Defensive | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...bill's failure to elicit a strong response shouldn't prevent the council from redirecting its efforts toward attacking on-campus homophobia. By increasing dialogue between students, faculty and the administration, by organizing and funding panel discussions, by lobbying to improve advising for gay students and by working to ensure a campus free of hate crimes, the council can do much more to eliminate homophobia than any single event would have done...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: An End to the 'Challenge' | 11/7/2000 | See Source »

...into the tacos? They are sold by Kraft but made by a Mexican company whose corn comes from any number of U.S. farms. Farmers who grow StarLink do so on the condition that they'll keep it out of human food supplies--a promise that's easy to elicit but hard to enforce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tempest in a Taco Shell | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Janey's plight might elicit sympathy from the three other blonds Bushnell depicts: the journalist who learns to appreciate her frequently cuckolded husband only after sleeping with his best friend; the sedated socialite discovering that marriage to a European prince isn't all it's cracked up to be; and the Manhattan society columnist sent to London to uncover the real story of sex in the British Isles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Four Play | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

intent to produce a certain effect on its audience and elicit certain...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shop Until You Drop | 9/21/2000 | See Source »

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