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...unlikely, but still possible that a future generation of justices would interpret the amendment so broadly to justify such blatant restrictions on free speech...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: A (Flag) Burning Issue | 5/25/1990 | See Source »

...think the Justice Department has pretty much said, 'don't interpret this to mean anything,'" said David Merkowitz, a spokesperson for the American Council on Education...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Schools Wonder if Inquiry Is Changing Focus | 5/25/1990 | See Source »

...thing you can know with respect to your own view is that you can engage in a lot of vigilance and scrutiny so that you can try to identify your own biases. You hope that a consciousness of social embeddedness makes you more sensitive. So, yes, of course, the interpretations of the Burgess Shale are in part conditioned by what's happening in society. But there is also a basic factual issue. I think that the description of the anatomy of these organisms can be done with objectivity. It is how we interpret these animals, and what we say they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEPHEN JAY GOULD: Evolution, Extinction And the Movies | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

Actual unification might be simpler than it appears. Article 23 of West German Basic Law, the country's constitution, provides that other German states can simply accede to the Federal Republic. Some legal experts in Bonn interpret that to mean that East Germany or its individual states can simply announce that they are joining the West. If the East were to choose the route of Article 23, the Munich daily Suddeutsche Zeitung observed, "reunification through Anschluss would hit the Federal Republic like a thunderbolt." The rest of Europe would feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe East Meets West At Last | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...Marxist would merely interpret Bill Cosby as the culmination of an oppressed minority which rises up, only to fall into the ruinous capitalist practices of Yuppiedom. My Grandfather bypasses the professional jargon with his simple, yet all encompassing vision of Cosby's influence on the American public...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Dialectical Albertism ? | 2/7/1990 | See Source »

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