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...their quest to carve out a defined scope for the powers of traditional tribal courts, Congress and the Supreme Court have differed over the extent of that jurisdiction...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Navajo Nation Case Could Redefine Scope of Tribal Courts | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

Sturdy's injury could present problems for Harvard, whose two weekend losses already create an obstacle in its quest for a fourth consecutive Ivy League title. Freshman forward Sharon Nunamaker, who had played a total of three minutes this year prior to last weekend, is now thrust into the Crimson's four-player frontcourt rotation that includes Janowski, co-captain Sarah Russell and freshman forward Lindsay Ryba...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Hoops Loses Sturdy to Ankle Sprain | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...story of how Watson comes to this quest, and where it ultimately leads her, is strange yet familiar. A child of the South, she worked her way up through the Byzantine white establishment by dint of stoic application and cheerful self-denial. Her city, which exists either in the near future or in the recent past, still refers to black people as coloreds and maintains a subtle quota system whose goal is not human equality but the appearance of social justice. The elevator bosses take their leisure at riotous banquets where the entertainment consists of humiliating minstrel shows. The civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Promise of Verticality | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

Kenneth Starr, who, in his interviews with TIME, compares himself to the fabled tortoise, turned out to be more enduring in his own relentless quest to frame the debate as a public, legal and constitutional issue. I visited with him earlier this month in the windowless beige conference room where every weekday this year he marshaled his troops in pursuit of Bill Clinton. He insisted that he had been falsely caricatured and thus agreed to spend hours last week with Michael Weisskopf and Eric Pooley as well as to open his office to photographer Karin Cooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Made the Choice | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...HAPPINESS Todd Solondz sees the pursuit of happiness as a quest open to all souls, especially doomed ones. With unblinking wit and guile he paints hell as a place very like New Jersey, where an 11-year-old boy has an urgent sex chat with his loving father, a pedophile. Has tenderness ever been so frightening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Best of 1998 Cinema | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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