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...stuck to her story, denying that she hurt Matthew. With a smile often threatening to break out on her face, she showed no sign of anger or malice that might support a murder charge. "I don't think any of us really believed this was a murder case per se," said Laurence Hardoon, former head of the child-abuse prosecution unit in Middlesex County. "It would have been different if she had dropped him from a three-story building or stabbed a knife into him. But shaking--that's a real gray area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A STUNNING VERDICT | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

That is not to blame the theory of communism per se as the cause of these famines--it can be argued that these famines are just examples of the poor execution (no pun intended) of the communist ideal. However, I do mean to point out that these regimes used the same rationale to justify their excesses: the rights of the collective over the rights of the individual...

Author: By Adam J. Levitin, | Title: Jiang's Halloween Costume | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...reviewed all the tapes last week before sending them to the Justice Department and Senator Fred Thompson's Governmental Affairs Committee. The 103 White House coffees were the most creative--and controversial--fund-raising technique invented by either party for the 1996 campaign. There was no admission fee per se, but past donors and potential givers were treated to a special set of Washington briefings with top officials that culminated in an hourlong session with the President. The events normally took place in the cozy, first-floor Map Room, a tastefully furnished, book-lined enclave in the Executive Mansion where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LET'S GO TO THE VIDEOTAPE | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...Harvard per se," she said. "It's all the developmental pressure of which Harvard is a part...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, | Title: Harvard Fears Effects Of New Zoning Petition | 7/18/1997 | See Source »

Benson Saler and Charles A. Ziegler, professors of anthropology at Brandeis University, have just published a study of what they call the Roswell Myth, which in their view has "religious-like" elements without being religion per se. Its primary purpose, Saler and Ziegler say, is twofold. One is as a means of social protest, in that the Roswell story is in great part an antigovernment narrative; as Zeigler points out, the Incident was largely ignored until the late '70s, when it resurfaced and resonated with a public made cynical by those twin devils, Vietnam and Watergate. By then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROSWELL OR BUST | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

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