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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...primaries are often necessary to decide a party nomination: if several candidates compete in the first and no one wins an outright majority, the two leaders must face each other in a second, runoff primary. In Jackson's view, this system prevents black candidates from winning office except in areas where blacks are a majority of voters. Says he: "Second primaries are the civil rights issue of this campaign. We're talking about displacing 20 Congressmen, about affecting Governors and Senators and mayors." He adds: "I could not in good conscience embrace a candidate" who failed to pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Does Jesse Really Want? | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...wish to leave any part of your estate to your college?"), waits until the user types in the answers and then leads him through the process of drawing up the document. Written by a lawyer who specializes in wills, the program satisfies the probate requirements of every state except Louisiana, which has a legal system based on the ancient Napoleonic Code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wizard Inside The Machine | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

Bresson, a technician of metaphysics, is fascinated by the machinery of injustice. Everything from a bank's cash dispenser to the French legal system to a finely honed ax is considered for its practical application. Nothing works, except for Bresson's own favorite machine, the movie camera; like Yvon, it refuses to counterfeit obeisance to a society motivated by its own corruption. Bresson, too, regards humanity with the ferocious passivity of a stone lion on some abandoned antique isle. At 76 he has made his most serene and terrifying film to date, one that strikes at its target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Spring Collection from Paris | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...with Moryl and Greeley spending the day together and the talented UMass offense up against the talented Harvard defense, there shouldn't be much change from last year's two doozeys. Except, of course, for the absence of Kleinfelder's worst nightmare--the graduated Bevelander...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: An Ol' Debt | 4/14/1984 | See Source »

...except because this time. Hart says...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: An Ol' Debt | 4/14/1984 | See Source »

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