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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faces besides the President's--as if that will make a difference to anything. But this is a campaign that issues a press release saying, "Unrestricted video of President Clinton's 21st Century Express train trip can be found beginning at 16:30 EDT on Telstar 402, Transponder 9B (KU Band) Downlink frequency 11986 mHz, Audio 6.2/6.8." No image is left to chance, and the angst starts at the top. After the G.O.P. victory in 1994, says spokesman Mike McCurry, "I think basically the President has lived every day in fear of being fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILL CLINTON, FROM ONLY SLIGHTLY CLOSER RANGE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...brightness now trails an equal and opposite darkness. Is it that terror and the media were implicated in some interconnected, overcommercialized Heisenberg effect? Did the media focus on the Games invite a terrorist to fasten his fatal attention where the lights were brightest? Perhaps. (On the other hand, the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia and elsewhere carried on its terror with no lights or cameras on hand. The Klan never heard of Werner Heisenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE DARKNESS | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

...handily provides. From the very beginning, following the careening path of the redneck's pick-up truck, we feel it's rolled right off the pages on to the screen. Readers of the book might become bored because of its own decidedly cinematic feel: Ruby-style shooting of suspects, Ku Klux Klan marches against Carl Lee's supporters and the like...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Schumacher Does Justice to Grisham Novel in 'A Time to Kill' | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...likable--maybe even lovable--movie. These are admittedly strange words to apply to a bristling melodrama that begins with the brutal rape of a young black girl and proceeds to the murder of her redneck assailants by her father, then to his trial, during which a revived Ku Klux Klan employs the full range of its all-too-familiar terrorist tactics as it tries to prevent justice from being done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUMMONS TO JUSTICE | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana: Trying once again to shrug off his former titles as Nazi and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, David Duke is hoping for a new label: U.S. Senator. Duke entered the U.S. Senate race on Wednesday, promising to fight for America's white, Christian heritage if he's elected. "I am not a racist and not a Nazi sympathizer," Duke retorted angrily to questions about his past. Duke said his main focus will be to restore and protect "the prosperity, the heritage and freedom of this country." According to Duke's home page on the Internet, heritage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Former Ku Klux Kandidate tries Again | 7/10/1996 | See Source »

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