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-- Why? In what way did Ginsburg or Gore or Claiborne Pell (a one-time, four- puff penitent) do wrong? The most obvious answer is that they willfully broke a law. True. But if what is at stake is respect for law, why the agitation about this particular law out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Ginsburg Test: Bad Logic | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

In 1948, Christina's World -- Wyeth's landscape of a farmhouse, a hill and the tortured girlish figure at the hill's base -- became an indelible part of postwar America's visual vocabulary and made the 31-year-old son of Illustrator N.C. Wyeth a star. As it happens, Christina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Andrew Wyeth's Stunning Secret | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

As Rolf Mengele told it in the Bunte story, the first time he met his father was on a skiing vacation in Switzerland in 1956, when the twelve-year-old boy stayed at a mountain hotel with an affable uncle called Helmut Gregor. Three years later, said Rolf, he discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches Absolutely No Doubt | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

Eastman's position draws upon a firmly based heritage. The protection of the clergy-penitent relationship rests on "one of the more basic privileges," says Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller-as strong or stronger than the similar claims to confidentiality between lawyer and client or doctor and patient. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confidence and the Clergy | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

In all U.S. legal history, only about 100 cases have involved efforts to abrogate the clergy-penitent privilege, says the Rev. John C. Bush, head of the Kentucky Council of Churches and the co-author of The Right to Silence: Privileged Clergy Communication and the Law. Bush adds that no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confidence and the Clergy | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

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