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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life one iota. I will still walk down to the chow hall afterwards for my beans and rice.? "The Farm" examines the bleak struggle of six convicts lost in a living graveyard where few ever get out. Rideau, who taught himself to read and write while on death row for 11 years, kept his story out of the film because, he explains, ?it?s the only way to get credibility -- people listen to you better.? He has no illusions that his own long legal struggle for freedom will succeed. ?If the courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prisoner and the Academy | 3/13/1999 | See Source »

Like any regular Thursday morning, I was busily scribbling notes from The Crimson's cliquey front row of Professor Harvey "C -" Mansfield's moral reasoning lecture, when from a few seats behind me I heard an old woman burst into a garbled, phlegm-filled hacking fit. If I were mature, I would have disregarded this disruption of Book Eight of Plato's Republic like everyone else in the class. But I'm not, so I giggled at the funny noise. My outburst was audible for just a second because I clenched my body to hold in the laughter. I shook...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: always the baby | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

Like any regular Thursday morning, I was busily scribbling notes from The Crimson's cliquey front row of Professor Harvey "C -" Mansfield's moral reasoning lecture, when from a few seats behind me I heard an old woman burst into a garbled, phlegm-filled hacking fit. If I were mature, I would have disregarded this disruption of Book Eight of Plato's Republic like everyone else in the class. But I'm not, so I giggled at the funny noise. My outburst was audible for just a second because I clenched my body to hold in the laughter. I shook...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: Endpaper: Always the Baby | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...smear annually, starting at 18 or whenever they first have sex. (More than 90% of cervical cancers are caused by a common virus that is sexually transmitted, although only a fraction of infected women develop the malignancy.) If you have normal tests three years in a row, you may, at your doctor's discretion, begin having them less frequently. But don't be fooled into thinking you no longer need a Pap smear after menopause. As long as you have a cervix, you need to get tested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fire Both Barrels | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

DEAD MEN SPRINTING Illinois' death row has been a busy place lately. But not for the executioner. Last month two men were acquitted of all charges and released. The Land of Lincoln has now freed 11 wrongfully condemned prisoners in the past 21 years--the same number it has put to death. Incidents of wrongful condemnation are also on the rise in other states. The leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Crime | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

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