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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the content of The Nuremberg Files is certainly disturbing and deeply offensive to those of us who support a woman's right to choose as well as to the majority of those who are anti-abortion, nowhere does there seem to be the threat of imminent lawless action. Not only is the Internet inherently weak as a provocative medium, but the Web site does not explicitly call for violence against abortion doctors. Furthermore, the site can be viewed as an informational political vehicle, since it also urges voters to begin letter-writing campaigns against abortion. Much as we might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fighting Within Bounds | 1/20/1999 | See Source »

...think this simplifies matters in a helpfulway; it reduces the risk that Harvard will seem tobe in two places at once on the promotion ofalcoholic beverages...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Strikes Name, Shield From Alcohol Advertising | 1/20/1999 | See Source »

...gizmos for now. Real luxury should simplify a driver's life, not complicate it, they say. "Some of these kinds of items come in handy," says DaimlerChrysler's Sloan. "But we have to be careful about creating too much driver distraction." Maybe so. For now, though, the biggest distractions seem to be parked in rival dealers' lots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redefining Luxury | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...death-wish fantasies go, none of those is anywhere near as satisfying as our fading images of nuclear war, which had the great advantage of plausibility. By comparison, most religious versions of Armageddon (the biblical episode) seem as unreal as Armageddon (the sci-fi film). Even most devout Christians don't expect that any time soon they will see the seven-headed beast from The Revelation of St. John, the New Testament's dense and cryptic vision of the last things. But in these final days of the 20th century, religious millennialism has once again found a real world problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End Of The World As We Know It? | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...defendant as the "man with the Velcro fly." At one point a mortified Delaware deputy attorney general was forced to testify that he had had a "threesome" with Capano and MacIntyre. Capano, he said, watched through a window while he had sex with Capano's mistress. Capano in turn seemed to have no remorse over his admission of numerous liaisons throughout his marriage, and he left behind a trail of graphic love letters as evidence. "Dear Slutty Little Girl" began a letter to one of what came to seem like a platoon of girlfriends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case of the Missing Corpse | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

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