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...hand, Abrams published his memoir at an opportune moment. It came on the eve of the Supreme Court’s stunning blow to the freedom of the press. And it arrives in stores as politicians who seem unconcerned with the First Amendment—namely Giuliani and McCain—dominate opinion polls...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In His Memoir, Lawyer Abrams Decries Encroachments on Free Speech | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

...eve of the Civil War, 4 million people were held in bondage, fueling the South?s economy but cleaving the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Great Divide | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

During Reagan's term, both sides have shown a propensity for publicly unveiling sweeping new proposals on the eve of important talks, partly as propaganda. Gorbachev's latest gambit follows in this vein. It also follows in the thus far fruitless tradition of proclaiming the goal of total nuclear disarmament. But the goal is no less worthy than when Baruch spoke of the choice facing the world at the dawn of the atomic age 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: .Disarmament: The Elusive Quest | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...behind some 2,700 pairs of size eight shoes, five shelves of Gucci handbags and 38 of her 105 clothes racks, designed to carry 80 outfits each. Around the château hung life-size portraits depicting the former First Couple as a scantily clad Filipino version of Adam and Eve. Elsewhere, the Marcoses had been a touch more modest: the legends on their bedroom intercoms read simply "King's Room" and "Queen's Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Closed Doors | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...contras can achieve all that they and their Administration sponsors want, there is a growing temptation to give them nothing, not even the relatively piddling $100 million that President Reagan is asking for, or to give them so little, so late, that it would be meaningless. On the eve of the President's speech appealing for the contra cause, which was scheduled for last Sunday night, a majority of the House, faced with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down choice, was leaning toward a cutoff of all U.S. aid to the contras and a pious but toothless exhortation to diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why Congress Should Approve Contra Aid | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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