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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both characters are imbeciles. They read an entire library and get nothing out of it except the illusion of understanding. But, in the eighth chapter, in the most famous passage of the entire novel, Flaubert writes that "a lamentable faculty arose in their spirits, that of seeing stupidity and no longer being able to tolerate it. They were saddened by insignificant things: the advertisements in the newspapers, the profile of a bourgeois, a mindless remark overheard by chance...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: On the Subject of Blasphemy | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

There's a reason Salem is such a big draw: 300 years ago, as everyone who has read "The Crucible" in high school knows, 19 men and women were hanged here in a five-month witch craze spanning the summer...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: In Salem, A Skewed History Lesson | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...couldn't be detained simply on the strength of an anonymous tip that he or she is carrying an illegal firearm. Also on Monday, the Clinton administration asked the Court to take up a case that could potentially overturn the so-called Miranda ruling, which demands that defendants be read their rights before they give statements to the police. The administration is alarmed over a potential challenge to Miranda, and wants to confront any erosion of civil liberties under its watch. "This is a pretty conservative court on the rights of the accused," notes TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defendants' Rights Go Under the Microscope | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...that the suspect was carrying a gun. In the other case, the Fourth District of Illinois upheld a 31-year-old federal statute - passed by Congress just two years after the Miranda decision - that said voluntarily given confessions are admissible evidence, even when the accused aren't read their rights. The law had never before been tested in court, but the Fourth District opined that Miranda was a ruling on procedure, and not a constitutional interpretation, and therefore need not be upheld. "Despite the ambiguity, courts around the country basically agreed with Miranda and have not been looking to force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defendants' Rights Go Under the Microscope | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...just read your new book last week, Joe Torre's Ground Rules for Winners [with Henry Dreher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Winning and Winning Again | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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