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...does not adequately address these difficulties in the text, but he correctly points out that there is not a proper dialogue about the Constitution's effectiveness, particularly in the realm of foreign policy. The primary reason for this is that most Americans have accepted the Constitution as holy writ, free from error and blasphemous to criticize...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Reflections on Policy From a Well-Known Dissenter | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...state's failure to protect an individual against private violence," declared Chief Justice William Rehnquist, was not a denial of the victim's constitutional rights. "While the state may have been aware of the dangers that Joshua faced in the free world, it played no part in their creation, nor did it do anything to render him any more vulnerable to them." The majority's ruling provoked an emotional dissent from Justice Harry Blackmun. "Poor Joshua! Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, cowardly and intemperate father, and abandoned by ((county officials)) who placed him in a dangerous predicament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Poor Joshua! | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...howling wind cascaded through the cabin so fast that one woman's earrings were pulled from her ears. Oxygen masks popped free (some people later complained that several oxygen compartments failed to open). "It was a nightmare," said passenger Dalenya Poliszcuk. A shower of ice cubes from the beverage carts and all sorts of personal possessions filled the air. "There were shoes blown back from the front of the plane," reported passenger Andrew Gannon. "A stewardess went flying, and another one tried to calm everybody down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blowout Over The Pacific | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

SHIRLEY VALENTINE. Pauline Collins (Upstairs, Downstairs) brings to Broadway the funny and poignant performance that won her London's version of the Tony as a discontented housewife breaking free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Mar. 6, 1989 | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Material comes from a variety of sources, including free-lance journalists in South Africa and the frontline states and independent video agencies and documentary makers in Western Europe. Some of the taped footage is smuggled out of South Africa. "Journalists who work for us are willing to take incredible risks to get their stories out because they know we are willing to put them on the air," says Carolyn Craven, senior producer and co-anchor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Filling The South Africa Void | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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