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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact her essential characteristic as described by friends is her natural reserve. One friend says that she can be thrown by a simple "How are you?" And that silences while she searches for small talk can be painful. Lynn Hecht Schafran, a lawyer at the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, points out that her shyness makes some people think she is cold but that she simply has the innate 10-second delay of the careful lawyer. Says Schafran: "She thinks first and then speaks. She has learned to be unafraid of dead airtime." She is equally careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law According To Ruth: RUTH BADER GINSBURG | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

Having botched Lani Guinier's nomination, the Clinton Administration has developed a new list of candidates to head up the Justice Department's civil rights division. Among them are Lynn Walker, director of human-rights and social-justice programs for the Ford Foundation (her plus: has skimpy, Souter- like paper trail); John Payton, the corporation counsel for the District of Columbia (his plus: is viewed as nonthreatening conciliator); john powell, American Civil Liberties Union legal director (his minus: prefers to lowercase name a la e.e. cummings); Judith Winston, Department of Education general- counsel designee (her minus: already nominated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nformed Sources | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...Lynn D. Lu and Lorna K. Brittain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Share Their Most Embarrassing Moments and Fondest Memories | 6/9/1993 | See Source »

...ruling left Kevorkian's opponents flabbergasted. "If I were a gambler, I'd bet that Kevorkian will kill someone tomorrow," said local Operation Rescue activist Lynn Mills after hearing the decision. "He's really out of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rx For Death | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...vital self- advertisement to Middle America, the telecast of the Tony Awards, opened with a best-play prize to the flamboyant Harvey Fierstein for Torch Song Trilogy. This year it seems likely that virtually every category may be won by shows with gay elements. Among the other contenders: Lynn Redgrave's one-woman Shakespeare for My Father, which alludes to the bisexuality of Sir Michael Redgrave, and the rock opera Tommy with its homosexual, pedophile uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gay White Way | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

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