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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resent his success and disagree with his stand on affirmative action. His aunt Bertha Louis agrees, telling TIME that when Connerly left her house and moved in with his grandmother, "it was very, very rough going. What he says is true. And if his grandmother could rise from the grave, she would tell you the same thing." Louis says she walked into her mother's house one day in 1959 to find Connerly, then a freshman at American River Junior College, "sitting down in the kitchen cutting a piece of paste-board and putting it into his shoe. I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE IN AMERICA: FAIRNESS OR FOLLY? | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...years old. In 1933 I was separated from my brother and the rest of my family. After reading your story, I was able to locate my brother within two days. I had expected to go to my grave never knowing my roots. Thank you and InfoSpace. No other database came up with a match. WAYNE E. BARNES Pompano Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 23, 1997 | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...imagine what would be. Nevertheless, there are certain legal requirements the government must meet. The federal death- penalty statute lists 15 possible aggravating circumstances, and the prosecution is trying to prove that four of these apply--that deaths occurred while McVeigh was committing various felonies, that he created a grave risk of death to people other than the victims, that he engaged in substantial planning and premeditation and that he killed federal law-enforcement agents. The jury may also consider aggravating circumstances that are not on the statutory list. In this case, the prosecution is attempting to establish that McVeigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: DAY OF RECKONING | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

...later, someone called from the medical examiner's office. "He said, 'We have recovered a portion of Ashley's hand,'" Treanor testified in a trembling voice that rose as she fought to get through each sentence, "'and we wanted to know if you wanted that buried in the mass grave or if you would like to have it.' And I said, 'Of course, I want it. It's a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: DEATH OR LIFE? | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

...When word leaked out earlier in the week that it might allow human- cloning research as long as no cloned embryos were implanted in a womb, the panel was immediately attacked by John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe of the American Life League. The commission was permitting, he said, "two separate grave evils": the creation of a cloned human embryo and its destruction in the lab. As he put it, "This means it is O.K. to clone as long as you kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO BAN OR NOT TO BAN? | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

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