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...culprit, and it's looking more and more like the pilot. Though the feds have tons of debris and data to scour before an official judgement, NBC reports early examinations of the plane's "black boxes" (in-flight data and cockpit voice recorders) show the pilot had mistaken a hilltop landing beacon three miles from the airport for the airport itself, and that he had approached that site as if to make a landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pilot May Have Caused Guam Crash | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

...G.O.P. Misinformed, mistaken and misanthropic. Relief bill was a layup, and they muffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 23, 1997 | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...many on death row are innocent? All or none, depending on whom you ask. Since 1976, however, 65 have escaped the death house when their convictions were overturned. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once wrote, "No matter how careful the courts are, the possibility of perjured testimony, mistaken honest testimony and human error remain all too real. We have no way of judging how many innocent persons have been executed, but we can be certain that there were some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: DEATH OR LIFE? | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

...When we are ranked No. 1 we say how wise [the U.S. News] editors are, but when we are ranked something else we say they must be mistaken," quipped Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, | Title: We're Number Three! | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

They are dangerously mistaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISS MANNERS WARNS: DON'T BE WIRELESS AND TACTLESS | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

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