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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...judge?s decision does not, however, appear to have upset the jury. Juror Stephen Colwell said he felt "greatly relieved" when the verdict was reduced to manslaughter ? a choice he and his 11 colleagues were never given. And most Americans, it seems, agree. According to an ABC News survey ? the first post-trial poll ? 56 percent felt manslaughter was the correct verdict, with only 35 percent opposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uproar Over Freed Au Pair | 11/11/1997 | See Source »

...amplified sound of the teenager crying in the courtroom 3,000 miles away. The American justice system came under attack. Alarmed by Leone's masterful summation, some complained that the defense should have had the final word, as it does in Britain. Furthermore, says British legal expert Stephen Jakobi, "Massachusetts, home to the witch-hunt--we have a lot of problems here...

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

...might not have even registered with American investors if not for the fact that stock prices in the U.S. are so high that they have become hypersensitive to any and all adverse news. "It doesn't take much to derail a market that has gone to the moon," says Stephen Roach, chief global economist for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STILL ON A ROLL? | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Most intractable of all was the task that faced Meier and Stephen Rountree, the director of the building program, in getting a conditional-use permit from the city of Los Angeles. This entailed dealing with scores of regulations; no excavated earth, for instance, could be moved off the site. It also meant interminable meetings, sometimes verging on the rancorous, with associations of homeowners in the surrounding areas of Bel Air and Brentwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARCHITECTURE: Getty Center and Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao: | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...achievement of Ken Burns' that his latest documentary for PBS helps rescue two heroic figures from the limbo of sixth-grade history. (Undaunted Courage, the recent bestseller by Stephen Ambrose, had already begun their rehabilitation, and Ambrose appears in the film.) Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, which will be shown in two-hour segments on Nov. 4 and 5, smoothly relates the story of the first expedition to cross the West and reach the Pacific Ocean. The familiar Burns techniques are here--actors reading letters, a cast of commentators, panning shots of historical images--but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: KEN BURNS: DOMESTICATED DARING | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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