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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come back to haunt the Illinois department of corrections. Last week state legislators packed a hearing room to view a two-hour tape of Speck cavorting with his prison lover. Purportedly filmed in 1988, three years before Speck's death, the tape shows the two inmates snorting cocaine, rolling marijuana joints, brandishing a roll of $100 bills and engaging in oral sex. "If they only knew how much fun I was having," Speck deadpans to the camera, "they would turn me loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NARY A SPECK OF DECENCY | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...kind of a steam roll effect," co-captain Tim Browne said. "You don't want to be tentative on offense, but when you're down you gotta make sure even more that you're taking quality shots and getting quality possession...

Author: By Chris W. Mcevoy, | Title: Cavaliers Just Better | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

NEWT GINGRICH scored a home run when he urged Bob Dole to lead a fight to repeal the Clinton gas-tax hike of 1993. Now Gingrich believes he has found something even more popular to roll back: beer taxes. At a meeting in his office on May 3, Gingrich discussed the idea of repealing George Bush's 1990 hike in tax on beer by the barrel. The Bush beer tax raised the price of a six-pack 16'. Gingrich believes a beer-tax cut, plus the gas-tax cut, is a sure way to help the G.O.P. court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 20, 1996 | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

Hopefully, more Crimson than Cavalier shots will hit the target, and the Harvard bandwagon will roll-on to College Park...

Author: By Bo Williams, | Title: M. Lacrosse Preparing to Face Virginia in NCAA Elite Eight | 5/17/1996 | See Source »

...ominous were the hosannas that the son, almost as soon as he was able, began denying his legacy, turning primogeniture into prodigality, forgoing the joys of the spirit for postwar America's version of pottage: alcohol and tobacco, motorcycles and rock 'n' roll. He fought so hard against being Billy's kid that he became a sort of Billy the Kid. It would be years before his flight from God, fueled by a fear that God would not accept his foibles, gave way to the fear of the emptiness without Him; years before he realized he could embrace his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

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