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...after endless months of campaigning, the 1996 election has drawn to a close. For those of you are feeling withdrawal from a lack of discussion of bridges, villages and "whatever"--never fear. Disappointed with Tuesday's results? Bide your time. Voters of New Hampshire: lock your doors! After all, its only 1,461 days until the presidential election...
...hard to prevent a circus, Judge Richard Matsch was not about to preside over a lynching--or risk seeing the biggest case of his career reversed on appeal. So on Wednesday, with prosecutors ready to explain in grisly detail why Timothy McVeigh deserves death, Matsch ordered the jurors to lock away their feelings and remain "free from the influence of passion." He ruled that government evidence designed to stir those emotions--wedding portraits, poetry, the testimony of a boy who missed his mom--would all be inadmissible...
...problem with [Harvard's] getting all that attention is that...the general public might think that that's the most important African-American studies department, or that they have a lock on African-American intelligentsia," says Harris, visiting professor of African and African-American studies at Washington...
...There are equally wonderful guys around at my university," he says. "Other voices and other minds bring different points of view, so that people don't think that black America is some big monolith, marching lock and step behind Skip Gates and company...
...team owner and a broadcaster. Murdoch?s Fox network and regional cable channels have played a key role in driving up the fees paid teams for televising games. By owning the Dodgers, as well as the NFL franchise Murdoch hopes to lure to Chavez Ravine, News Corp would lock in both popular sports programming and a cut of those fees. Worse, if he gets his way, they'll never come back to Brooklyn...