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...Case for Killing Social Security, and the Black Renaissance, to name just three. During his tenure, TIME superbly covered the war in Bosnia, the Newt Gingrich revolution and its effect on American politics, the O.J. Simpson trial and, most recently, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, which happened a scant 24 hours before the magazine went to press...
...this score there is scant dissent. No one since Lyndon Johnson has been a more effective Senate leader. Dole is the master of the half loaf. He trades with those who hold high cards for whatever he can extract in policy or political terms. In the past few months of high drama, as Congress sought to enact the G.O.P.'s budget, Dole's work on welfare reform displayed both his mastery of the process and his underlying ideology...
Davis received 301 transfers from Lee and 50 votes from Reeves. McSweeney, however, gained 35 of Lee's votes and a scant six from Reeves...
...take a stroll back to Stevenson Field in Providence, R.I. on Saturday night. It was about 8:50 p.m., and Harvard was ahead of the Brown Bears by a score of 1-0 with scant minutes remaining...
...guilt was not what they were interested in. But DNA doesn't lie. Conceding that the jury did not want to invoke justice, how did they reconcile freeing O.J.? Proof of the jury's blindness and unwillingness to make O.J. pay was the fact that they took a scant three hours to deliberate over a case that produced 45,000 pages of paper, contained over 1,100 pieces of evidence and lasted nine months...