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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, for one thing, it showed how erratic Kaczynski can be. And once again the more temporal matters of his guilt or innocence, which never seemed much in doubt, have been pushed aside while the lawyers and judges have a long nationwide conversation about just what constitutes crazy in an already crazy world. Never mind all those journals tucked on the shelves next to the Shakespeare and Thackeray; all those carefully constructed bombs and the letters; even when the government has the evidence on its side, other factors seem to conspire to change the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Fits And Starts | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...must concur for a sentence to be commuted, will block her execution. Bush, a law-and-order Republican facing a re-election campaign this year, would seem to gain little politically by such a move. Moreover, there simply are not the requisite legal questions or doubts about her guilt that might prompt commutation. Pardon has never been given to anyone in Texas based on religious conversion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why So Many Want to Save Her | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...depicts and build the harmony that we so desperately seek. It is a shame that the President's initiative on race has, thus far, been equally devoid of substance. Nonetheless, any attempt to find solutions to our current predicament in Amistad will only further mire us in useless guilt and silly symbolic gestures. The only legitimate lesson that weepy moviegoers should take away from this holiday season is this: Beware unsinkable ships...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Unloading 'Amistad' | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

SACRAMENTO: An intransigent Theodore Kaczynski has forced his defense team to abandon plans to call mental health experts to testify during the guilt-or-innocence phase of the trial, according to court papers filed late Monday. The move means that reams of pre-trial documents asserting that the Unabomber suspect is schizophrenic, and unable to form the intent to kill anyone, have been set aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Trial is it Anyway? | 12/30/1997 | See Source »

...another. Their exhibition of mass apology seemed a down-home version of a wider impulse that has affected whole nations of late. France reiterated its apology for its treacherous and murderous treatment of French Jews under Vichy. The U.S., led by the President, apologized for slavery. Mass guilt, which used to be thought of as a convenient way out of individual responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YEAR EMOTIONS RULED | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

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