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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vocal in proportion to their numbers. That opinion is held close to the vest, often unconsciously. But only superficially is this silence of the opposition desirable. Without intelligent argument, laws and minds cannot be changed. For this reason, we urge conservatives to come out of the closet, so to speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Affirming Gay Rights | 4/7/1998 | See Source »

Guinier said the speech was in honor of her father Ewart Guinier, " who taught me to speak in my own voice," and her mother Eugenia Guinier-- who attended the talk--" who is still teaching me how to life my voice in harmony with others." Ewart Guinier was the first chair of Afro-American studies at Harvard...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guinier Promotes New Vision of Social Justice | 4/7/1998 | See Source »

...dour jeremiad on man's corruptibility--or even a slice-of-lice drama like Mamet's American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross--and you'll be pleasantly surprised. The villains in The Spanish Prisoner (like the war-games con men in Mamet's Wag the Dog script) dress well, speak softly and carry a silver stiletto. They kill for sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gamut Of Mamet | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

Thomas should not have been slammed for pointing out that Hill followed him to another job and invited him to speak where she was teaching, just as it is legitimate for Clinton to point out Willey's affectionate notes, her book proposal, her publicity hunt via 60 Minutes. By the same token, it was just as wrong for Thomas' critics to get hold of his video-rental records as it was for Kenneth Starr to subpoena a bookstore last week to pry into Monica Lewinsky's reading habits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gloria, Gloria | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...hope your boy gets raped in jail and killed." The words, angry and exasperated, from an anonymous caller, burn into the ears of Jackie Golden, grandmother of Andrew Golden. For a moment she is too shaken to speak. "I know people have been killed," she says, trembling from the venom. She knows it is widespread. But, she says, Andrew is still my grandson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is Justice For A Sixth-Grade Killer? | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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