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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lewis also stressed the importance of Marshall's work to American society. Asking the audience to consider Marshall's influence on landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education, Lewis said, "This would be a different America if Thurgood Marshall had not lived...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hooks, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Professors Laud Marshall Legacy | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

Harvard Square, famed for its plethora of independent bookshops, lost a little of its diversity yesterday with the closing of Reading International Bookstore, a Square landmark since...

Author: By Scott Sheffield, | Title: Reading International Closes Shop in Square | 2/16/1993 | See Source »

Sixteen years have passed since ABC's landmark telecast of Roots. In TV time, that is nearly a millennium. Back in 1977, the mini-series was a fresh and vital form. The Big Three networks still had a virtual monopoly on the TV audience. And an old-fashioned, multigenerational family saga disguised as a history lesson about slavery could seem like a major contribution to racial understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florid Fiction, Bruising Fact | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

...heart of the controversy lies the so-called Delaney Clause, approved by Congress when Eisenhower was President and named for its chief sponsor, Representative James Delaney of New York. This landmark law prohibits even the tiniest trace of potentially cancer-causing additives in juices, jellies, flour, baked goods and thousands of other processed foods. Most pesticide laws -- for example, the ones that cover fresh foods -- strike a balance between risk and benefit, allowing for tiny amounts of man-made chemicals if they help farmers protect crops. Not Delaney. Any amount of a potential carcinogen in processed food is grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Practical About Pesticides | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

...services, however, people from all walks of life showed their appreciation of how indelibly he has marked our society. Beneath a portrait of the Justice that was displayed alongside his casket, a mourner placed a copy of the Supreme Court's opinion in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case in which Marshall the lawyer successfully argued that the Constitution prohibits racial segregation in public schooling. At the bottom of the first page of the opinion, the anonymous admirer wrote, "You shall always be remembered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fanfare for an Uncommon Man: THURGOOD MARSHALL | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

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